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Interview with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...

While Senator Hillary Clinton, Democrat of New York, was attacking the Bush administration over the Dubai ports deal, her husband Bill was advising United Arab Emirates officials on how best to smooth over the controversy and push the deal through....

Embarking on a deliberate challenge to the historic Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court that legalized abortion throughout the United States, the South Dakota state legislature voted last week to outlaw all abortions except where the life of a pregnant woman was in danger. Governor Mike Rounds, a Republican like a majority of the state lawmakers, said he would sign the bill....

Spurred on by a lawsuit in Massachusetts, national retail chain Wal-Mart announced Friday that it has decided to stock emergency contraception (EC) in all of its pharmacies, acquiescing to pressure from the National Organization for Women and other women's rights groups....

Jim Fetzer of 911ST.org on Real Republican Values. This is just a 41 sec clip from a two hour show. He's says something to the effect of this: The Bush administration is the most blatantly corrupt administration in US History. AND they have violated many important Republican principles such as balanced budgets constitutional government non-interventionist foreign policy and keeping government out of peoples’ personal lives. Why would any Republican support this Bush and his ...

Supporters of the death penalty cling to "deterrence" as a major reason for their support. The logic goes that the death penalty will give a killer pause before they take a life. But the claim is really built on sand....

Six months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, we speak with two activists about what many call the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Jordan Flaherty is an organizer with the New Orleans Network and an editor of Left Turn magazine; Kevin Powell is a journalist and author who is helping to launch Katrina On the Ground, an initiative which will bring student delegations from around the country to the Gulf Coast to work with local aid organizations....

Footage of a videoconference between President Bush and disaster officials a day before Hurricane Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast is smoking-gun proof of the president's poor leadership skills, the writer says. Earl Ofari Huthchinson is an associate editor at New America Media and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."...

The Winter 2006 issue of Middle East Journal ran a scathing review by Professor Marc Saperstein of my book Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history. Saperstein alleged that my book was a "prolonged diatribe," replete with "outrageous ad hominem attacks" and written in the "rhetorical style of the arrogant academic pit bull."...

Disaster jobless benefits for 140,000 workers left unemployed by Katrina are about to run out. You can help those families today by telling your U.S. representative to pass the Katrina Emergency Assistance Act, which will extend those benefits for 13 weeks....