President Obama can reduce deficit in beneficial ways
By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, December 7, 2012

President Obama must hold the line in any negotiations with Republicans over the budget deficit.
U.S. must be for peace in Colombia
By Louis Edgar Esparza, December 5, 2012

Despite the challenges, there is always hope. Colombia has a robust civil society sector that the guerrillas are pining to join.
CEOs Say Slash Safety Net at Bottom of Fiscal Cliff
By Roger Bybee, December 4, 2012

Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs: We need to “to lower people's expectations of what they're going to get.”
James Baldwin’s America and the Paradox of Race
By Simon Balto, December 3, 2012

Baldwin noted that the threat of perishment facing millions of Black people wasn’t just a literal one. It was also a social one: existential erasure.

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