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Articles Of Interest From The Past
"Universal Health Care." Kucinich for President Committee (2003).
"One Single Solution." Journal of the American Medical Association (08/13/2003).
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." 1963.
Satel, Sally. "Out of the Asylum, Into the Cell." The New York Times (11/01/2003).
Wills, Garry. "The Day the Enlightenment Went Out." The New York Times (04 November 2004).
Staples, Brent. "How the Justice System Criminalizes Mental Illness." The New York Times (13 December 2004).
Rosen, Jonathan. "The Woodpecker in All of Us." The New York Times (03 May 2005).
Cook, Robin. "Decoding Health Insurance." The New York Times (22 May 2005).
Klinkenborg, Verlyn. "Grasping the Depth of Time as a First Step in Understanding Evolution." The New York Times (23 August 2005).
Editorial: "December 25." The New York Times (25 December 2005).
Editorial: "Preserving the National Parks." The New York Times (30 December 2005).
Judson, Olivia. "Why I'm Happy I Evolved." The New York Times (01 January 2006).
Banerjee, Neela and Berryman, Anne. "At Churches Nationwide, Good Words for Evolution." The New York Times (13 February 2006).
Obama, Barack. "Call to Renewal" Keynote Address. 28 June 2006.
Editorial: "At the Founding of the National Parks." The New York Times (27 August 2006).
Greenberg, Paul. "Other Fish to Fry." The New York Times (08 September 2006).
REMEMBERING 11 SEPTEMBER 2001: "The Names" by Billy Collins.
Archer, Diane. "Profit For Some Or Care For All." TomPaine.com (27 February 2007).
Editorial: "It Didn't End Well Last Time." The New York Times (04 April 2007).
Klinkenborg, Verlyn. "Millions of Missing Birds." The New York Times (09 June 2007).
Thompson, Nicholas. "A War Best Served Cold." The New York Times (31 July 2007).
Baker, Dean."The Right to Unionize: Key To Democracy." Truthout (27 August 2007).
Coontz, Stephanie. "Taking Marriage Private." The New York Times (26 November 2007)
Downes, Lawrence. "Late Encounter With a Bluefin." The New York Times (02 December 2007).
Freedman, Adam. "Clause and Effect." The New York Times (16 December 2007).
Editorial: "When Christmas Morning Comes." The New York Times (25 December 2007).
Steinberg, Paul. "The Hangover That Lasts." The New York Times (29 December 2007).
Beinhart, Larry. "The Fraud of Bushenomics: They're Looting the Country." alternet.org (19 January 2008).
Liptak, Adam. "U.S. Imprisons One in 100 Adults." The New York Times (29 February 2008).
18 March 2008 Speech On Race by Barack Obama.
Editorial: "When Protection Vanishes." The New York Times (05 April 2008).
King, Gilbert. "Cruel and Unusual History." The New York Times (23 April 2008).
"Remembering Our Father" by Kerry, Joseph and Kathleen [Kennedy]. The New York Times (05 June 2008).
Nichols, John. "George Carlin, American Radical." TheNation.com (23 June 2008).
Brouner, Ethan. "Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection." The New York Times (06 July 2008).
Jerusalem Western Wall Prayer by Barack Obama, swiped by Jewish seminary student and published by Maariv in July 2008.
Kuttner Robert. "Only a Roosevelt-Scale Counterrevolution Can Prevent Great Depression II." alternet.org (18 September 2008).
Sanger, Tony. "Iceland's Economic Meltdown Is a Big Flashing Warning Sign." AlterNet (21 October 2008).
Editorial: "The Next President." The New York Times (04 November 2008).
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It is time to change from fighting against something to fighting for something.
We will begin with these four cartoons:
"Places He Remembered." The New York Times (18 January 2009)
Klinkenborg, Verlyn. "Darwin at 200: The Ongoing Force of His Unconventional Idea." The New York Times (11 February 2009).
Klinkenborg, Verlyn, "Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud." The New York Times (16 May 2009).
Schmidt, Peter. "Elite Colleges Are Promoting a Culture of Selfish, Cutthroat Behavior and We Are All Paying the Price." AlterNet (23 May 2009).
Dreyfu, Robert. "FBI Blows It: Supposed Plot Against NY Synogogues Is Bogus." The Nation (23 May 2009).
Klinkenberg, Verlyn. "Walking the Land Where the Drilling Rigs Will Go." The New York Times (27 July 2009).
Hartmann, Thom. "It's Not Hard to Be a Job-Slashing, Pension-Grabbing CEO --If You're a Sociopath." AlterNet (28 July 2009).
Winfrey, Carey. "A Final Verdict on the Presidential Salute." The New York Times (31 October 2009).
Rich, Frank. "Tiger Woods, Person of the Year." The New York Times (19 December 2009).