Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold suggests that he
will oppose more troops and funding for the war in Afghanistan if the
Obama adminstration doesn’t present a cohesive exit strategy.
This week’s UN General Assembly session will be memorable not so much for what is said by the lineup of world leaders as for the sustained involvement of one of them: Barack Obama.
At the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, activists will push the United States to back proposals to regulate CEO compensation and require corporate responsibility.
An overwhelming majority of Chicagoans oppose spending any public money on the Olympics. But Obama is lining up with Mayor Daley in support of the Windy City’s bid.
If women’s equality is the cause of our time, we’ll get further by acknowledging it’s a challenge no country has fully met than by framing it as a Western crusade.