Commentary:
By Enrique Morones
After a month on the road, bringing an inspirational message of justice and dignity to dozens of cities across the country that have been ravaged by America’s failed war on drugs and other harmful policies, the Caravan for Peace finally roled into Washington, D.C. this past week to conclude its historic journey.
Commentary:
By Lisa Schiff
California voters concerned with the fate of our public schools face a dilemma this election day–how to vote on the two competing tax measures that each pledge to provide significant new financial support to our state’s public education system. Propositions 30 and 38 present very different alternatives to the immediate fiscal crisis in our schools and formulating an opinion on them is no easy matter.
Commentary:
By Maegan E. Ortiz
Republicans should give up their ugly campaign to declare English our official language.
But Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, keeps pushing it.
Earlier this month, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on HR 97, known as the English Unity Act of 2011, the latest version of an English only bill that King has been trying to pass since 2005. It would place an English language requirement in workplaces and at official government functions.
Commentary:
By Matthew Rothschild
This past week marked a grisly milestone in Afghanistan: The 2,000th U.S. service member has now died there.
And the pace of those deaths has increased, with Obama’s surge bringing about a surge of U.S. deaths. As the New York Times notes, it took about nine years of war to claim the first 1,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines. And it took just a little more than two years to slay the second thousand.