by Alan Jenkins | May 18, 2008 | Blog
The California Supreme Court connected human rights to reality last week when it ruled that same-sex couples have the same right to marry that heterosexual couples have. The court majority rejected the false notion that offering gay and lesbian couples a separate and...
by Terrance Heath | May 16, 2008 | Blog
Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....
by Tula Connell | May 16, 2008 | Blog
A woman who spends years in medical school emerges to take her place alongside a panoply of male physicians—who, on average, make 38 percent more than she does. Female attorneys fare better—they make 30 percent less than their male counterparts. But it's not...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 16, 2008 | Blog
I flashed back to the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign, which aimed to build a "rainbow coalition" of working-class people based on progressive populist economic policies, earlier this week in my post on Firedog Lake. It is easy to get discouraged by...
by Terrance Heath | May 16, 2008 | Blog
I knew as soon as the California Supreme Court marriage ruling was posted, that I would read the whole thing. I started reading it at my desk, after it was posted, but stopped once got to the "bottom line" of the ruling — and, truly, because as I realized what I...
by Bill Scher | May 16, 2008 | Blog
Yesterday, President Bush was in Israel, and equated speaking with Iran with "the false comfort of appeasement." Today in Saudi Arabia, Bush will likely fail (UPDATE:
