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  • The media guesswork about what will happen on Super Tuesday hides the bigger picture--what Election 2008 so far says about U.S. politics.

  • The mortgage crisis is now dominating the headlines, but the underlying question remains: Who will help people at risk of losing their homes?

  • More than 250 Massachusetts doctors issued an open letter warning against a "cure" that promotes the health--and wealth--of private insurers.

  • In another setback for the Bush administration's "terror" prosecutions, the Feds failed to win a life sentence for Jose Padilla.

  • A voice from Gaza:

    Dr. Mona El-Farra talks about the starvation conditions Palestinians face as a result of Israel's siege.

  • A voice from Gaza:

    Mohammed Omer describes what it was like at the Gaza border where Palestinians poured through a breach in the wall of their prison.

  • Defying police, Palestinians poured across the border into Egypt after a section of the 33-foot-high border wall came down.

  • Forty years ago, a nationwide offensive by the fighters of the liberation struggle in Vietnam exposed the lie that the U.S. was winning the war.

  • Fifteen years after a peace agreement was signed in El Salvador, the government has launched a new wave of repression against social movements.

  • One of the Lucasville Five describes how he was railroaded onto death row for a crime he didn't commit.

  • Real women have abortions--but not in the movies, to judge from several popular and critically acclaimed recent films.

  • Brian De Palma thinks the savagery of the war in Iraq has been redacted by the media, and his attempt to correct led to a hornets' nest of controversy.

  • The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights held its national conference with a weekend of education, debate and discussion.

  • A fight for five workers terminated for union activity at a North Carolina truck plant has high stakes for labor's long effort to organize the South.

  • Chicago activists are gearing up for a second round in their fight against deportations and the separation of families.

  • Protesting the siege of Gaza | Support war resisters | Defending immigrant workers

  • A lack of choices on the ballot | False hopes and the Democrats | Life without parole is not cruel

  • Race and racism have emerged at the heart of the Democratic presidential campaign. But they have always been beneath the surface of U.S. politics.

  • A new report on Iraqi deaths in the New England Journal of Medicine doesn't begin to tell the whole story.

  • Israel imposed a total blockade on Gaza, forcing a shutdown of the only electricity plant and sparking fears of an acute public health emergency.