Stories by Sean Gonsalves
Sean Gonsalves is a syndicated columnist and news editor with the Cape Cod Times.
The government's attempt to gut a law protecting whistle-blowers does not bode well for our First Amendment rights.
Posted on May 12, 2008
Government secrecy does not make us safer; it undermines the Constitution.
Posted on May 6, 2008
It is becoming more and more difficult for the news media to undertake serious investigative reporting.
Posted on Apr 28, 2008
Why Americans should care that print journalism is going down the drain.
Posted on Apr 22, 2008
Foreign military bases have served as launch pads for American military adventures. Increasingly, they are also being used as CIA 'black sites'.
Posted on Apr 7, 2008
To have a truly productive conversation about race we must address the wealth disparities that perpetuate racial inequality.
Posted on Apr 1, 2008
The manufactured controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright ignores the tradition of 'prophetic preaching' in African-American churches.
Posted on Mar 25, 2008
You wouldn't know it from the past 50 years of American history, but Congress has the legal authority to curb presidential warmongering.
Posted on Mar 18, 2008
Clinton keeps saying she has experience. But all that her record shows is how good she is at undermining the Constitution.
Posted on Mar 10, 2008
If Clinton had focused on women's roles in the economy, maybe we wouldn't be talking so much about the Senator from Illinois.
Posted on Mar 3, 2008
I like Clinton as a person. But I don't vote based on whether I'd like to have a beer with a candidate.
Posted on Feb 15, 2008
Why Obama may win more votes, but Clinton will get the party's blessing.
Posted on Feb 11, 2008
That's what a lot of folks are wondering, including petitioners in Vermont who want Bush and Cheney arrested for crimes against humanity.
Posted on Feb 4, 2008
These days we don't want to hear from poor folk. Today's motto is: The poor should not be seen, nor heard. It's survival of the richest.
Posted on Jan 11, 2008
It is hard to imagine the candidates providing much change when their political strategists are the same crew who've been around for years.
Posted on Jan 7, 2008
Now is the time to consider our utopian dreams and confront our dystopian nightmares.
Posted on Jan 2, 2008
Using steroids to bulk up isn't just a problem in baseball, but it's afflicting law enforcement in New York and Blackwater mercenaries in Iraq.
Posted on Dec 17, 2007
How can social conservatives deny Darwin's theory of evolution while espousing social Darwinism?
Posted on Dec 10, 2007
By imposing tougher penalties on those who break the law, we're becoming a society that is cutting off its nose to spite its face.
Posted on Dec 4, 2007
Scientists might not be sure exactly how it works, but musically and artistically inclined students are better readers and mathematicians.
Posted on Nov 27, 2007
The Army's high desertion rates are prompting Uncle Sam to fish harder for high school seniors to join the ranks.
Posted on Nov 19, 2007
When reforming the No Child Left Behind Act, it would be good to consider the different ways people learn and the different kinds of intelligence.
Posted on Nov 9, 2007
No Child Left Behind imposes serious consequences on schools for low test scores, but regarding dropout rates -- where students are literally left behind -- it barely does anything.
Posted on Nov 6, 2007
Closing the education gap between races requires a critical look at early education and health care disparities -- not unfounded statements that black people are less intelligent.
Posted on Oct 29, 2007
Bush's ironically-named No Child Left Behind program cheatsschools out of money and time.
Posted on Oct 22, 2007
Is the Lieberman-Kyl amendment a stepping stone to waging a preemptive war on Iran?
Posted on Oct 1, 2007
You can't claim the moral high ground in the struggle for racial justice with a beat-up white kid at the bottom of the pile.
Posted on Sep 24, 2007
Amid all the chatter over the New England Patriots' "spy gate" scandal, the question is: what do Bill Belichick's video man, Bush patriots and the USA Patriot Act have in common?
Posted on Sep 17, 2007
The new book, 'The Counterterrorist Companion,' is an amusing reminder that the most potent weapon in the fight against terrorism is to not be terrorized.
Posted on Sep 10, 2007
This year's Executive Excess 2007 report found that "top executives averaged $10.8 million in total compensation, which is 364 times the pay of the average American worker."
Posted on Aug 31, 2007
The national media have fallen short on providing context in the "war on terror," aiding and abetting America's foreign policy cataracts problem.
Posted on Aug 27, 2007
Author Edward W. Wood Jr. gives a WWII veteran's take on the dangers of glorifying war.
Posted on Aug 20, 2007
PBS will soon air a new documentary by Ken Burns about World War II. Let's hope it's an honest discussion of the War, without all the myths.
Posted on Aug 13, 2007
No matter how many times a disturbed white male shoots up a school, church or workplace, bombs an abortion clinic or is arrested for being a serial killer, nobody raises questions like: is something wrong with white suburban culture?
Posted on Aug 6, 2007
We interrupt this episode of
As The World Burns and turn our attention to America’s other national pastime.
Posted on Jul 27, 2007
Yes, the days of state-sanctioned segregation are still a thing of the past and integration may not be the ultimate answer. But being color-blind is no way forward.
Posted on Jul 16, 2007
Is anyone surprised that Scooter Libby's 30-month sentence was commuted?
Posted on Jul 9, 2007
OK, I admit it. I was excited when I first heard the CIA was going to show us the "family jewels." But now that I've seen the "jewels" it all seems rather anti-climatic, about as satisfying as Geraldo's exploration of Al Capone's vault.
Posted on Jun 29, 2007
While Islamophobes and the "liberal" media have us focused on the theoretical threat of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, there's not much public discussion about the real threat of cluster bombs.
Posted on Jun 22, 2007
Who's more ridiculous: "Christian" Islamophobes obsessed with the "threat to civilization" posed by "Islamofacism" or atheist evangelists who think religion is the root of all evil?
Posted on Jun 18, 2007
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