NEA-Alaska President Barbara Angaiak on Resignation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
Published Jul 4, 2009 - 6:34:38 AM
Sarah Palin's announcement that she's resigning provides educators with an opportunity to open a fresh dialog about the pressing issues in Alaska's classrooms. NEA-Alaska stands ready to meet with Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell as he takes over as Governor.

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Joseph L. Galloway: As U.S. troops pull back in Iraq, wars' toll falls now on Obama
Full story: McClatchy DC

Haroon Siddiqui: Iraq a failed imperialist venture
Full story: Toronto Star

Gail Collins: Basically, the point was that Palin is quitting as governor because she's not a quitter. Or a deceased salmon.
Full story: New York Times

Kate Hudson: American health care system can learn from the Brits
Full story: Juneau Empire

Glenn Greenwald: The NYT calls Iranian interrogation tactics "torture"
Full story: Salon.com

Anchorage Daily News: Governor's explanation for resignation doesn't make sense
Full story: Anchorage Daily News

Max Blumenthal: Did a Scandal Sink the U.S.S. Palin?
Full story: The Daily Beast

John Ridley: This Fourth: Freedom, Crispus and Gay Linguists (Remixed)
Full story: Huffington Post

Rebecca Mead: Sarah Palin's Focus Group of Four
Full story: New Yorker

John Nichols: Palin Goes Gonzo
Full story: The Nation

New York Times: West Coast's four big dams on the Lower Snake River should be removed
Full story: New York Times

Robert Fisk: Tanks roll and guns fall silent, but the cliches go on for ever
Full story: The Independent UK

Fairbanks News-Miner: Palin seems to have lost interest in the job and is doing the state a favor by quitting now
Full story: Fairbanks Daily News Miner

Andrew Halcro: Palin's strange statement forces reporters, bloggers to speculate
Full story: Alaska Dispatch

Liesl Gerntholtz and Gauri van Gulik: Beyond the Burqa
Published Jul 3, 2009 - 11:25:20 AM
President Sarkozy of France has reignited the debate about how Muslim women in Europe should dress by calling for a ban on clothing that, as he puts it, imprisons women and undermines their dignity. But in this burqa debate the voices of Muslim women are strangely absent.

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Martha Rosenberg | Doctors Boo Obama in Chicago
Published Jul 3, 2009 - 8:00:05 AM
You would have thought it was Wrigley Field not the Hyatt Regency Chicago. When President Obama told gathered physicians at the American Medical Association's annual meeting in his home town this month, "I'm not advocating caps on malpractice awards which I believe can be unfair to people who've been wrongfully harmed," he was booed like Chicago Cub Milton Bradey. "Yank him," was probably next.

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Robyn Blumner: Insurer greed makes 'public option' necessary
Full story: Dispatch

Paul Krugman: It's up to Washington to ensure that 1937 doesn't happen all over again
Full story: New York Times

Joe Conason: Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot
Full story: Salon.com