Could a Cuban vaccine have prevented a Princeton epidemic?

November 30, 2013

Eight Princeton University students have contracted type B meningitis since March. Meningitis, which inflames the lining around the brain and…

Protest at Georgia detention center

November 30, 2013

Lumpkin, Ga. -- For the seventh year, hundreds of protesters gathered Nov. 22 in Lumpkin, Ga., to march to the…

Thousands demand: ‘Close torture-training School of the Americas’

November 30, 2013

Fort Benning, Ga. --  Following the 1989 murders of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter in El…

Mumia Abu-Jamal: ‘No thanks for Thanksgiving’

November 30, 2013

Every November, when “Thanksgiving” is scheduled, I think of the People of the First Nations (so-called Native Americans), and wonder…

After treaty with Iran, is world more secure?

November 30, 2013

Finally, "diplomacy opened up a new path toward a world that is more secure — a future in which we…

Significance of Nat’l Day of Mourning

November 28, 2013

The 44th commemoration of the National Day of Mourning on Nov. 28 in Plymouth, Mass., will mark 13,809 days of…

Workers pack Boston hearing, expose union busters

November 28, 2013

If Veolia Transportation's union-busting crackdown on the United Steelworkers Local 8751 Boston school bus drivers' leadership was meant to intimidate…

Observer reports fraud in Honduras election

November 26, 2013

Tegucigalpa, Honduras,  Nov. 25 — The Honduran people remain in a state of organized “tense calm” a day after the…

Right to abortion is denied in Texas, affirmed in Albuquerque

November 26, 2013

Two polar opposite events affecting women’s right to choose abortion took place on Nov. 19. One was a 5 to 4…

Gentrification rocks North Carolina working class

November 26, 2013

Durham, N.C. — Several years ago, this city announced it had developed a 10-year program to eradicate local homelessness. City officials…