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Historically, the Confederate flag is a symbol of the Democratic Party.

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Russell Simmons was never a young voter. The 46-year-old hip-hop tycoon cast his first vote in a presidential election seven years ago, he says, at the age of 39.

Travel agents booking international flights may have to issue a new warning to their customers: Changing planes in the United States could be hazardous to your health.

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Click here to read Manuel Pastor and Tony LoPresti’s report on the anti-FTAA organizing campaign in Miami.

What would you do now in Iraq? is the question confronting the Democratic presidential candidates.

All right, so maybe Howard Dean could have thought of a better way of reaching out to white Southern men than saying he wanted “to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pick

At least there’s no Bush eulogy
On why they had to die.
It’s better that they’re laid to rest
Without another lie.

Clouds curdle round it, crack open, let it through.
Radiance shades by cloudshapes; fat fruit
of incandescence; sphere of peeled silver. I wonder

Psalm after psalm into a dead sea of silence: they invite
their own enormous, endangered day. Scalded, lord,
by sunlight and the lizards watching, licking dust,

On slow wings the marsh hawk is patrolling
possibility–soaring, sliding down almost to ground level,
twisting suddenly at something in the marsh hay or dune grass,

The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of $25,000, awarded annually for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States by an American, is administered mutually by the Academy of