Opinions
In 1989, Michael Hatch, then Commerce Commissioner of Minnesota, released an investigation of two medical malpractice insurance companies finding that each had increased doctors’ malpractice premiums some 300 percent. 
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| Jul 19, 2003
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Opinions
The morning of the affirmative action workshop at the Rainbow/PUSH coalition conference last month was the very same morning that the Supreme Court released its controversial and divided decisions in the twin University of Michigan affirmative action cases.
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Opinions
Official publicity surrounding the Iraq War gives no indication that military people might harbor dissenting views or be reluctant to obey orders. But the voices of soldiers who said “no” crop up in the historical record.
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Opinions
Who can deny that there are a great number of prisoners in Cuba suffering the most severe jail conditions existing in today’s world? For them there is neither day nor night because they are blindfolded and in complete darkness. Their ears are also plugged and they remain in complete silence.
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Vietnam shifted to a socialist market economy in 1986 after failing to meet economic output targets of its five-year plans. Similar problems began to appear in the mid-1970s in the USSR and European socialist countries.
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Aquí presentamos uno de varios artículos con motivo del 150 aniversario del prócer cubano José Martí.
El domingo 19 de mayo de 1895 amanece despejado. Ha llovido en los días precedentes, pero las mañanas son luminosas en este mes caracterizado por los grandes chaparrones, a los cuales sucede la luz del sol irradiándolo todo, como si nada hubiera pasado. Desde el 13 de mayo andan Martí y Máximo Gómez, con sus fuerzas, por el campamento de Dos Ríos, donde los cauces del Contramaestre y del poderoso Cauto se dan la mano, en la Sierra Maestra.
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Opinion
NAACP President Kweisi Mfume hailed the Supreme Court’s June 22 ruling upholding the University of Michigan law school admissions program, calling it a “major victory” for affirmative action.
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Opinion
You know CEO pay is still out of control when Fortune magazine puts a smiling pig in a suit on the cover and headlines its pay roundup, “Have they no shame? Their performance stank last year, yet most CEOs got paid more than ever.” Fortune, remember, is a leading business magazine, not a union publication.
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Opinion
I have come across much news coverage that has been hailing the recent Supreme Court rulings as civil rights victories. However, like the decision, I am split on this. The Gratz and Grutter v. Bollinger decisions were harmful and helpful in more than one respect.
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Opinion
“Roe v. Wade hangs by a thread,” said National Organization for Women (NOW) President Kim Gandy, at a press conference announcing a historic march on Washington for reproductive freedom, April 25, 2004, called by leading women’s rights groups.
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