Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her
Arkansas museum with America’s cultural treasures–a fig leaf that seeks
to cover Wal-Mart’s naked greed and exploitation.
The World Social Forum in Caracas provided living proof of
alternative political and social visions, but raised new questions
about government co-optation.
The structure of our Republic is at mortal risk. Will our Constitution
survive or are we in the midst of a transmutation in which the balance
of powers and our personal freedoms will be canceled?
Although his language is less blatant than Richard Nixon’s, George
Bush is claiming the same imperial powers today that led Congress to
pass the Foreign Intelligence Security Act.
The Bush Administration failed to protect New Orleans and has yet
to rescue its displaced citizens. We need an independent investigation
to force accountability.
An Austrian court sends a crackpot historian to prison for denying the
Holocaust; why shouldn’t Muslims protesting the Muhammad cartoons
question a double standard?
In a DNA-driven search for biological roots, it behooves us to be less
romantic about connecting with our ancestors. If we biologize our
history, we will be forever less than we could be.
Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton is on a buying spree, filling her
Arkansas museum with America’s cultural treasures–a fig leaf that seeks
to cover Wal-Mart’s naked greed and exploitation.
In a DNA-driven search for biological roots, it behooves us to be less
romantic about connecting with our ancestors. If we biologize our
history, we will be forever less than we could be.