The racial divide among Hispanics
Today in the United States, within the hearts and minds of the people variously known as Hispanic or Latino, a new racial identity is being forged. Its birth could have major implications for the future of U.S. politics and race relations -- and for the fate of the Hispanic community.
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07/29/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
Are we becoming another Brazil?
The United States is rapidly becoming a nation with Latin American levels of economic inequality. And the Bush administration is doing everything in its power to aggravate this trend, which is driven by a combination of market forces and public policies.
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07/15/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
Was Times coverage tainted?
What was the role of the American media in ''manufacturing consent'' among the American people for the war in Iraq and its aftermath?
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07/01/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
What's the official story? Weapons of mass distortion
What were they thinking? Why did they do it? Why did the president and other top U.S. officials tell the nation and the world, repeatedly and unequivocally, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when much of the intelligence, including a report by the Defense Intelligence Agency, reflected significant doubts? What explains the yawning gap between the contradictory and inconclusive nature of the intelligence and the absolute certainty of official statements?
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06/17/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
Class war in America continues
There were several new developments last week -- and one obscene twist -- in the top-down class war under way in America. The obscene bit happened in Florida -- surprise -- during the special session of the state Legislature.
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06/03/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
Invasion of Cuba is dangerous delusion
That the Iraq war has revived a certain strand of Cuban exile thinking that seemed long buried was brought home in a conversation I had with a critic a week ago. He had already finished telling me why my columns are no good and why the idea that dialogue is the best approach when it comes to Cuba is dead wrong. I kept pressing him for his alternative, but he ignored me.
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05/20/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
Legislature took aim on the poor
`How else to describe the new [George W. Bush] administration's legislative agenda -- elimination of the inheritance tax, revision of the bankruptcy laws, the repeal of safety regulations in the workplace, easing of restrictions on monopoly, etc. -- except as an act of class warfare? Not the aggression that Karl Marx and maybe Ralph Nader had in mind, not the angry poor sacking the mansions of the rich, but the aggrieved rich burning down the huts of the presumptuous and trouble-making poor.''
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05/06/2003 03:01 AM EDT)
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