With Congress about to head out of town for its summer recess, a Washington-based think tank is ramping up a campaign to foil any attempts to institute a tax on carbon emissions.
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Don't Judge a Magazine by Its Cover
America's apparent outrage over theRolling Stonecover featuring a photo of accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reveals a great deal about this country's insecurities and prejudices.
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Diplomacy Where It Is Needed Most
For those who viscerally hate the Russians, there will always be reasons, however obscure, to justify their resentment. But Edward Snowden hardly provides the justification.
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No More National Conversations
I'm tired of national conversations, whatever that even means. The impact of racism, or many other "isms" in our society are deep-seated, generational, and omni-present, and there is no "national conversation" that will unseat them.
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Is There No Price to Be Paid?
We would all benefit from listening to the voters who may be trying to tell us something about what is happening in Washington and the U.S. Congress. Maybe there is a price to pay for not trying to help our country meet its challenges.
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Rick Perry 2016: It's Not Inconceivable
While Perry's ill-fated 2012 presidential campaign will go down in the history books as a good example of an epic failure, this has not completely discouraged Governor Perry and his supporters.
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Racism in America: The Killing of Trayvon Martin
The Zimmerman verdict indicates there are two different standards of justice in America: one for whites and another for blacks.
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A Wake-up Call for the Syrian Brotherhood
One of the long-standing myths surrounding Syria is that if the regime goes, the only alternative is either the Muslim Brotherhood or chaos. That argument, after what happened in Egypt on July 30, is now history.
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The U.S. Does Not Need New Theater Missiles
New missiles may indeed alter the conventional balance in critical regions in the favor of the United States, but at what cost?
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You Call This Justice? How America Became a Prosecutocracy
When Stephen Nodine threw his hat in the ring for an Alabama congressional seat, the state's Republican Party chairman unctuously announced that the party would not give its imprimatur to a candidate who had been convicted of a crime. Is this self-righteous idiot of a chairman the real face of the party of Lincoln? Those tens of millions who have been wronged by the U.S. Justice system -- and almost all of them have, because even the guilty are grossly over-sentenced -- should assert the traditional American right to redress, like African-Americans, women, gays, and all ethnic groups as their numbers enabled them, have done.
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How Prop 187 Became the Pivot for the Immigration Issue and Future of Democratic Politics
Kathleen Brown was on her third campaign manager, and things weren't going well. She had begun as the toast of the East Coast-based national media, with a big lead in the polls over incumbent California Republican Governor Pete Wilson.
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Why We Can't Wait: The Future of the US Democracy
Our nation is an "inescapable network of mutuality," and laws that marginalize or disenfranchise any of us hurt all of us. Our communities of faith call for a fix to the Voting Rights Act and for common-sense comprehensive immigration reform now.
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Embedded Racism
Our present legal system has evolved from legal and social structures that regarded certain categories of human beings as chattel. That immorality has never been officially disowned. It has never been fully and courageously addressed.
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Key Mistakes Sway Jury in Zimmerman Trial
Sanford police officer Chris Serino, the chief investigator on the case, testified that, given all the evidence, he believed Zimmerman was telling the truth. It is well-established that witnesses cannot make credibility judgments.
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Prometheus Among the Cannibals: A Letter to Edward Snowden
What is terrifying to the politicians at the top is that you may be our truest patriot at the moment. "This country is worth dying for," you said in explanation of your great risks.
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Fed Chair to Congress: Stop Killing Jobs
In his congressional testimony yesterday, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke called out the Congress. He warned them to stop the reckless and mindless spending cuts that are killing jobs and growth. His warnings fell on deaf ears in the Congress.
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The Quick, the Dead and the Guilty
Here is the news you've all been waiting for. As is often the case with news, it consists of two parts-the bad and the good. The bad news is he was found guilty. The good news is he won't have to serve any time. That's because he's dead.
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ENDA Vote Is Just the Beginning
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act now heads to the full Senate for consideration. In 29 states workers are not protected from being fired because of their sexual orientation, and in 34 states workers can be fired for being transgender.
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