The crazy is coming out in Arizona, but this likely unconstitutional immigration law might really be about something else, plus other political news and views.
Thanks to SB 1070, a new law that requires immigrants to carry papers at all times to prove their legal status, Arizona has become the focal point of the national immigration debate.
Fifty years ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth control pill. Needless to say, the repercussions of this medical and public policy breakthrough are still being felt today.
Today, April 28, the anniversary of Abousfian Abdelrazik's entry into the Canadian embassy, Project Fly Home is hosting a 'Sanctions-busting Telethon.'
Sure the Tea Party folks are upset, but should progressives care? And in Europe the Catholic church sex-abuse scandal is making some interesting waves. Plus news you might have missed!
The United Nations declared the 1960s the first development decade. This should be the decade of democracy, without which there can be no human development.