Rethinking immigration reform

At a think-tank retreat in Santa Fe in March, journalists, academics, documentary film producers and non-profit community advocates discussed how the U.S.-Mexico border is defined by one issue: immigration.
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May 3, 20074 CommentsRead More

So much for the so-called party of family values

President Bush's budget-busting, spendthrift tactics have already robbed the GOP of its claim to the title, "Party of Fiscal Conservancy."

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May 3, 200712 CommentsRead More

Kennedy battles his demons

Rep. Patrick Kennedy says he is tackling his prescription drug addiction one day at a time, a year after crashing his car into a Capitol barricade in the middle of…

May 3, 20072 CommentsRead More

Paying for bad sex

The nation's veterans disability system is severely strained and it could be strained to the point of collapse when 700,000 returning Iraq and Afghanistan war vets begin applying for help. …

May 2, 20073 CommentsRead More

Real cost of Iraq war: More than $500 billion

The cost for President George W. Bush's failed Iraq war will soon top $500 billion. That half a trillion dollars or ten times what administration officials claimed the war would cost…

May 1, 20071 CommentRead More

The madame, her girls and the pols

Nothing rocks official Washington like a good, juicy sex scandal and the town has thirsted for one since the tawdry tales of Bill…

April 30, 20075 CommentsRead More

Apologies sure ain’t what they used to be

Somebody really needs to apologize for the sorry state of apologies in this country. Arguably, we've never had a more apologetic period, yet acts…

April 27, 20072 CommentsRead More

Military’s excuse: ‘It’s the media’s fault’

Kevin Tillman & Jessica Lynch (AP)

Facing accusations that it invented war heroes from Afghanistan and Iraq for propaganda purposes, the US…

April 25, 20073 CommentsRead More

Did the National Guard racially profile its own?

New Mexico's congressional delegation is calling for an "immediate and thorough investigation" into charges that soldiers from a New Mexico National Guard unit were partially strip-searched in Kuwait last year…

April 25, 2007Comments OffRead More

Pat Tillman & Jessica Lynch: The cover-up

Kevin Tillman testifies Tuesday (AFP)