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• FREE PRESS

  Congress should pass a federal shield law

  By ARLEN SPECTER

  Attorney General Michael Mukasey is wrong when he says we do not need a federal media shield law. Mukasey recently argued in an Op-Ed column that there is no need for Congress to provide a qualified, evidentiary privilege for journalists. As evidence, he cited a few of the many important news stories that, even in the absence of a shield law, were brought to light because of sources who provided information to journalists under a promise of confidentiality. Pending media shield legislation would...

• MEDIA

  How are we going to pay for covering the news?

  BY EDWARD WASSERMAN

  Faced with advertising declines, the news media are scratching for alternative revenue sources. They want their new money to have the same features industrial countries want in their alternatives to oil: That it be clean and renewable.

• POVERTY

  Unjust debt robs poor nations of better future

  By DESMOND TUTU

  In April, the U.S. House of Representatives showed leadership in the fight against global poverty by passing the Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation of 2008, which would extend lifesaving debt cancellation to more poor nations around the globe.

• In Mississippi, echoes of a summer past

  By LEONARD PITTS JR.

  SUNFLOWER, Miss. -- Joaquin Burse wants to go to Harvard and be a laser tech. You might think that's a lofty goal. Truth is, you have no idea how lofty it is.

• Israel facing demographic challenge

  By TRUDY RUBIN

  When Israel's independence was proclaimed in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948, as leaders of the nascent state sang Hatikva (Hope), few could have imagined the vibrant state that exists today.

• FIVE QUESTIONS

  Homes are where her heart is

  Diane Cantor became the new executive director of Centro Campesino Farmworker Center on March 24. Q. What did you do before you came to Centro?

• BOLIVIA

  Morales overplays his political hand

  BY EDUARDO A. GAMARRA

  When Evo Morales won a dramatic victory at the polls in December 2005, he became one of the most significant Latin American political figures of the present era. His international presence and recognition has transcended by far even the greatest Bolivian political figures of the 20th century such as Víctor Paz Estenssoro, who led the 1952 Revolution and was president of Bolivia on three separate occasions.

• VIDEO GAMES

  Awful doesn't begin to describe it

  By SUSAN ESTRICH

  Rockstar is the name of the company that is rolling wheelbarrows of money to the bank this week, projected to rack up something on the order of $400 million in revenue from the sale of six million copies of its newest video game sensation, Grand Theft Auto IV.

• DEMOCRATS

  Obama must reach out to women

  By ELLEN GOODMAN

  From time to time during this primary, I've wondered about Obama's mama. In a race that was so much about biography, about beliefs rooted in her son's ''DNA,'' she's made only cameo appearances.

• VERBATIM

  Cuba's historic role in human rights

  By PABLO PEREZ-CISNEROS

  This year marks the 60th anniversary of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. Below are excerpts from a speech by Miamian Pablo Pérez-Cisneros at a Vatican conference sponsored by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See.

• ARGENTINA

  Country descending into deep crisis

  By CESAR CHELALA

  Just five months after her inauguration as Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's government is unraveling. Beginning in mid-March, striking farmers stopped agricultural produce from entering Argentina's major cities, and meat and grain from being shipped overseas. Although the farmers have stopped their more drastic measures, the conflict continues unresolved.

• 60TH ANNIVERSARY

  Israel remains true to its mission

  By H.D.S. GREENWAY

  There is a certain symmetry to the departure of Yossi Harel, who recently died at 90 in Tel Aviv, and the arrival of Israel's 60th birthday. Harel was the commander of a battered, second-hand ship that he renamed Exodus and sailed into legend.

• BLACK AMERICA

  Modern-day prophet on point

  By FROMA HARROP

  Around the time that Rev. Jeremiah Wright was fluffing his feathers before the national media, a genuine prophet appeared in Newark, N.J., to deliver a tough look-in-the-mirror message to fellow African Americans. The visionary was entertainer Bill Cosby, and his theme encapsulated in the title of a book he wrote with Harvard professor of psychiatry Alvin Poussaint: Come on, People! On the Path From Victims to Victors.

• HUMANITARIAN AID

  We can stop starvation, violence in Haiti

  By BARBARA J. JORDAN

  You are probably aware that the growing food crisis in Haiti has been the focus of community leaders and Haitian activists in Miami-Dade County for the past several weeks. But, what they have told us in the past few days must be clear to all. It is time now that people of all nationalities and from all walks of life in our community become greatly alarmed and mobilize to act.

• CLINTON AND OBAMA

  May's Democratic victories won't be so in November

  By DAVID S. BRODER

  The endless Democratic presidential campaign has lurched from irrelevance to trivia, triggering a near-universal call to bring it to a halt.

• BURMA

  Let international aid reach the people

  By FRIDA GHITIS

  During a visit to Burma a few years ago, I decided to avoid the country's legendarily deadly airlines and instead hire a car to take me along the somewhat less deadly roads. Distances that on the map looked like they should take an hour to cover took entire days.

• THE AMERICAS

  Free trade could benefit all partners

  BY MARIFELI PEREZ-STABLE

  Free trade is getting a bum rap everywhere. Long gone is the spirit of the early 1990s when the Americas jointly raised the banner of integration. Held in Miami, the first Summit of the Americas embraced the idea of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). What in 1994 seemed to be a good beginning ultimately went nowhere.