Freedom Summer, 50 Years After

The Power of Stories by ROSEMARY LÉVY ZUMWALT In his memoir, Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers, Memories of Mississippi 1964-65, Jim Dann put to paper the stories from his time in Mississippi 50 years ago, working as a […]

One of Robert Gates’ More Real Legacies

NOVANEWS A Half Million Dead Iraqis by WINSLOW T. WHEELER Today’s fixation in Washington is former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ so called new revelation, breathlessly reported by theWashington Post (Robert Woodward), the New York Times (Thom Shanker) […]

NAFTA at 20 Years

NOVANEWS Nothing to Celebrate by NICK ALEXANDROV This has already been a rotten year for Washington state’s Boeing workers, who “agreed to concede some benefits in order to secure assembly of the new 777X airplane […]

The War on Poverty at 50

NOVANEWS Moving Toward a Just and Equitable Economy by ALICE O’CONNOR Fifty years after Lyndon B. Johnson made it the centerpiece of his first State of the Union address on January 8, 1964, the War […]