March 3, 2007

The question, “Are we heading into a recession?” has been hanging like a dark cloud over Wall Street since the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 416 points Feb. 27, the stock market’s worst day since Sept. 11, 2001.

Fact check on Venezuela
Antiwar in Arkansas
Latinos for peace, then and now
Health care for all

I recently came back from a remarkable return visit to Vietnam. My first trip to Vietnam was in 1972 during the war, when Nixon decided to bomb Hanoi during the Christmas holidays. The contrast with today’s Vietnam was enormous.

Ten days before Christmas, the Woodfin Suite Hotel in Emeryville, Calif., fired Luz Dominguez and 20 other housekeepers. Managers announced they’d received a letter from Social Security saying the numbers they’d given when they were originally hired didn’t match government records. The 21 housekeepers have been making beds, washing toilets and vacuuming carpets there for years.

Review of Kingdom Come and For Lovers, Dreamers and Me

With the increased access to digital camcorders, everyone is taking a stab at making films. This fortunately puts moviemaking and truth-telling in the hands of the masses and creates some amazingly artless but sincere statements.

Luis Posada remains in jail because Federal Judge Philip Martinez denied his petition for habeas corpus on Feb. 21.

En la lucha por la sindicalización de la industria norteamericana de empacadoras de carne, ha surgido como cuestión de gran importancia la taza elevada de trabajadores lesionados.

Los resultados de un examen nacional de estudiantes de cuarto año pone en duda la eficaz de muy alabada ley Ningún Niño Se Quede Atrás.