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Today We Are One

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. I wrote earlier today that from his mountaintop Martin Luther King Jr. saw the...

Watch the Acclaimed Documentary At the River I Stand

April 4 marks the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, murdered in 1968 while fighting for the rights of striking Memphis sanitation workers. This event is brilliantly chronicled in the acclaimed documentary, At the River I Stand. This year's...

Dangerous Unselfishness

Years ago, I visited Memphis, Tenn., to attend a conference.  The conference coincided with the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death, and thousands of fans were in Memphis to visit Graceland.  I visited the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr....

I Happen To Have Paul Krugman Right Here

Watch GOP flack Torie Clark fatuously parroting the most fetid, decaying conventional wisdom ("neither of the two Senators tried to score political points ... they were very responsible") and then drag out the crusty old "uncertainty" trope to explain why companies...

Today Is National We Are One Day 1000 Rallies Nationwide

Today, We Are One, standing in solidarity with millions of working people from every walk of life – for the right to bargain collectively for good, middle-class jobs. Join us in solidarity with working people in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and dozens of other states...

Americas Billion-Dollar-a-Year Men

Hedge fund honchos bet on stocks. They bet on gold. They bet on lawsuits. Most of all, they bet that the rest of us will never wise up to the awesome giveaway our current tax code ladles on them. Only in America can someone make $85 million in a year and feel...

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