Today – June 30, 2009 – is a holiday, if you live in Iraq. It is National Sovereignty Day, the day United States troops are officially gone from the cities of Iraq. From this point on, Iraqi cities will be policed and protected by Iraqi troops.

On April 7, 2009, the Obama administration did something very good. It released the Department of Homeland Security's Report on Rightwing Extremism. The report is a fine piece of analysis -- intelligent, clearly presented, fact-based, and, unfortunately, right on target.

In the second half of my interview with author and activist Rinku Sen, she discusses the realities of immigration now and her hopes for a better policy in the future.

The author of The Accidental American tells how she came to write the book and discusses the way in which activism and organizing for change can help people heal from tragedy.

This masterful book, subtitled Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization, will change the way you look at immigrants, labor organizing, corporate globalization, and our current immigration policy.

Arlen Specter is the latest in a long line of senators who switched political parties. Find out who else made a change and why they did.

What place should competition have in health care reform? Who does competition help? Are opponents of the Obama plan correct to be fighting to retain competition?

Read about the NNT, or Number Needed to Treat, and where it fits into the relationship between drug companies and the health care reform plan.

Can a vegetable garden be a political statement? Absolutely.

Enhanced interrogation is not new, and neither is torture. What sets the Bush administration's torture memos apart is their unabashed attention to detail.