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Six scary words: Governor Whitman. Senator Fiorina. Speaker Boehner.  Defeating the GOP is essential. And insufficient. We also need to move public policy in progressive directions. From Sacramento to Washington, the political anatomy of elected officials is crucial: Republicans are heartless. Disaster follows when Democrats are spineless.  During the past decade, boosts of the federal…

Friday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. — Point Reyes Station — Dance Palace Community Center, 503 B St. Norman will be a speaker at the “Versus not Versus” evening of “poetry in support of West Marin community unity.” The event will include a screening of the new documentary “Every War Has Two Losers” (based on…

On my way to the Los Alamos National Laboratory a few years ago, I found it listed in a New Mexico phone book—under "University of California." Since the early 1940s, UC has managed the nation's top laboratories for designing nuclear bombs. Today, California's public university system is still immersed in the nuclear weapons business. Sixty-five…

Washington’s spin machine is in overdrive to counter the massive leak of documents on Afghanistan. Much of the counterattack revolves around the theme that the documents aren’t particularly relevant to this year’s new-and-improved war effort. The White House seized on the timeframe of the documents released by WikiLeaks. “The period of time covered in these…

Norman Solomon wrote in a recent op-ed piece: Statistics might not lie — but they easily go flat as wallpaper when high unemployment is routine. On paper or screen, the latest jobless numbers look tidy and self-contained. But in real life, for many individuals and families, the effects of unemployment are messy, sprawling and devastating.…