FORWARD EDITORIAL: Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 83 on January 15. He started transforming this country as few had done before him, and he was only getting started.
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By Jane Eisner
The Palestinians’ most famous prisoner and most popular politician tells the Forward through his wife that he believes in a two-state solution and unity with Hamas is coming soon.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: A momentous Supreme Court decision on campaign finance has given rise to a new and potentially destructive player in elections: the Super PAC.
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The Israeli right should take a closer look at the protests in Russia. Israeli citizens may also become fed up with being ignored by leaders intent on perpetuating their own power.
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The Arab League’s decision to send monitors to Syria comes at a time when we badly need information about the bloody uprising there. But all is not right with this group of observers.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: What a year it was, this two-oh-one-one. Uprisings, protests, regimes on the run. We follow in a great Forward tradition. And thank you for reading our next edition!
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By Jane Eisner
Economist Manuel Trajtenberg was picked to plan reforms after Israel’s social justice protests. He’s putting the country through quite a learning experience, writes Jane Eisner.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: Republicans are enacting new restrictions on voting in the name of preventing ‘fraud.’ Luckily, Attorney General Eric Holder is defending voting rights.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: A nearly all-male network runs most of the national Jewish organizations. Even worse, some of them make enough to make the 1% blush.
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FORWARD EDITORIAL: The Thanksgiving leftovers are finished or in the freezer, but a central question remains: Did you eat turkey stuffed with dangerous antibiotics?
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