May 5, 2010
Weekly Pulse: FACE the facts
Lindsay Beyerstein
In 1993, anti-choice extremists murdered a doctor, burned 12 buildings, set off a bomb, and blockaded 66 abortion clinics.
US Politics
US Politics
Apr 30, 2010
Lost in the desert: Bad laws and poor politics
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
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.
May 1, 2010
‘A Different Path’ charts creative ways to ditch cars
This documentary, showing at Toronto's Hot Docs International Documentary Festival, is an inventive and illuminating take on car culture.
Apr 30, 2010
Humberto: There are none to big too fry
rabbleTV
Not Rex Murphy: This week Humberto files his report from the Business School at the University of Western Ontario.
Apr 30, 2010
Weekly Diaspora: Boycotting Arizona
Erin Rosa
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.
Apr 28, 2010
Weekly Pulse: The pill at 50 and Oklahoma's extreme ultrasound law
Lindsay Beyerstein
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.
Apr 28, 2010
Abdelrazik and the sanctions-busting telethon
Mary Foster
Today, April 28, the anniversary of Abousfian Abdelrazik's entry into the Canadian embassy, Project Fly Home is hosting a 'Sanctions-busting Telethon.'
Apr 23, 2010
Me or your lying eyes -- the tea party, the Pope and the pursuit of truth
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy!
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!
Apr 22, 2010
Weekly Diaspora: What the #$@!, Arizona?
Erin Rosa
Legislators in Arizona have passed yet another law that criminalizes undocumented immigrants.
Apr 22, 2010
The globalization of solidarity: A draft communiqué for the G8/G20
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.
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