Editorials
Health Care and the Campaign
Health care is emerging as a major campaign issue, and rightly so, because we are in trouble. The U.S. Census Bureau has found that over 44 million people lack health insurance.
Articles
The Origins of Amity
Generalizations about races or nations, however prejudiced, usually have some basis in fact. - Peter Mansfield, The Arabs.
The Church's Bishop, A City's Pastor
It might surprise many to learn that no bishop has ministered to more persons living with AIDS than Cardinal John O’Connor, who by his own report tended to countless patients at St. Clare’s Hospital.
Distributors of Justice: A Case for a Just Wage
In this Jubilee year, the issue of wealth distribution, especially as it relates to the larger macroeconomic issues of international debt and globalization, has received a good deal of attention and a
Fighting Against Sweatshop Abuses
When did your anti-sweatshop work begin? We began our labor rights activities in Latin America in the early 1990’s in El Salvador and Honduras.
The China Trade Debate
The debate over whether the United States should give permanent normal trade relations to China pits human rights concerns against economic ones.
Books and Culture
Books
Patrick Tyler, The New York Times’s Beijing bureau chief from 1993 to 1997, begins his history of U.S.
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