National Center Research Associate Nick Cheolas attended an advance screening of the new Oliver Stone film "World Trade Center," and found it remarkably clear of the controversial politics that often characterize Stone's films. Says Nick: Oliver Stone is certainly no ... READ MORE
Analyses of H.R. 5195 and S. 2645, the House and Senate versions, respectively, of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act of 2006, frequently suffer from a number of misperceptions. This paper is intended to illustrate and correct ... READ MORE
The "right of innocent passage" is the right of any nation's ships to traverse continuously and expeditiously through the territorial waters of a coastal nation, subject to certain conditions.1 Under the Law of the Sea Treaty, such passage is conditioned ... READ MORE
Throughout my life, I have always been an eager viewer of the television offerings of Bill Cosby. As a child, I remember rising early on Saturday mornings to watch "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" cartoon. As a young adult, ... READ MORE
Deep racial fault lines were exposed on the campus of the University of Michigan in September of 2005 after two Asian students claimed that two white students urinated on them as they passed under an apartment balcony. Before an investigation ... READ MORE
The message is alarmingly loud and clear to adolescents: There's nothing wrong with promiscuous sex. Network television and cable programs, movies, song lyrics (along with suggestive music videos), internet research and chat rooms render graphic sexual images and dialogue 24 ... READ MORE
A sample of a typical letter we receive on global warming (except it is unusually polite): Do you really believe that the educated public can't see the changes taking place before our own eyes? Money and politics won't matter when ... READ MORE
Founded to secure and protect the "citizenship rights" of black Americans, the NAACP established an honorable reputation fighting Jim Crow laws, championing school desegregation and advocating groundbreaking civil rights legislation. George Washington Carver, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks ... READ MORE
"These are like something from a bad, horror movie." -Former U.S. Secretary of Interior Gail Norton, Time for Kids, October 2002 What do mute swans, kudzu, red clover, pigs, and starlings have in common? Not much, except that they are ... READ MORE
The latest on the "Medicare for All" conversation between our David Hogberg and Alternet's Joshua Holland: Joshua Holland argues in favor of "opening up the Medicare program to anyone who wants to enroll." He argues that such a system would ... READ MORE
