How ICE's Privacy Standards Hurt Immigration Reform
Have you ever wondered why you don't know more about the detention of 34,000 immigrants every day? The answer lies in the "privacy standards" authored by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)....
View ArticleHow Michelle Obama's Critics Undercut Progress
Becoming a mother last year fundamentally shifted the way I think about leadership and how we create a more just and healthy world. I've realized that one of the biggest barriers to our progress is...
View ArticleThe Democrats Need a Tea Party
The Tea Party pushes the Republicans to the right. The Democrats need a party to push them to the left. Not the old left of big government and high taxes on the middle class, but a new left of...
View ArticleMuslims: WWJD (What Would Jefferson Do?)
Denise Spellberg's newly published Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders (Alfred A. Knopf) offers a fascinating and timely corrective to American post-9/11 anti-Muslim bigotry. While there...
View ArticlePresident Kennedy's False Legacy
The 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's November 22, 1963, assassination reminds us of how thoroughly myth has overtaken the facts in his legacy. The facts are clear: Kennedy did little to...
View ArticleShould Sharing Food Be Classified as a First Amendment Right?
On Thanksgiving Day, many religious and secular organizations share food with the needy. Typically these one day events proceed without significant legal restrictions. However, in recent years many...
View ArticleReasons to Be Grateful in 2013: The Women in Politics Edition
Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the things for which we're grateful. I try to remember this gratitude all year long, but this week is an especially important time to express it. Here, a handful of...
View ArticleRep. Sherman Favors More Civilian Airline Crashes in Iran
The nuclear deal that was struck between Iran, the United States and other world powers last week has elicited a lot of reactions in the policymaking world. Many have been strongly positive. Others...
View Article8 Reasons NOT to Give Thanks This Thanksgiving
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View ArticleSocial Security for the Life-Cycle
As Congress nears the month-long mark of budget negotiations, a recent poll by Public Policy Polling found that voters in key swing states and districts both overwhelmingly oppose reducing social...
View ArticleThe Moneyball Campaign
There was an interesting discussion on Saturday's Up With Steve Kornacki between Kornacki and John Sides, a political scientist who co-wrote The Gamble: Choice and Change in the 2012 Presidential...
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Who Is Speaking Up for the Insured? Progressives Are Missing the Boat
Progressives today seem to care much more about people without medical coverage than those with it. And who wouldn't? The suffering and anxiety of the uninsured is a national shame. Obamacare will,...
View ArticleCan the Presidential Turkey Pardon Just Go Away Already?
Ah, the annual Presidential Turkey Pardon has come and gone. Once again, the National Turkey Federation has given the president two turkeys, which the White House proceeded to give cheerful names to...
View Article12 Years a Slave and Today
Last night, I went to see a screening of 12 Years A Slave that included a conversation with Harry Belafonte and Steve McQueen about the film and it's role in history. The film is a classic, for all the...
View ArticleThanksgiving for Rep. Trey Radel
Last week U.S. Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) pleaded guilty to cocaine possession in Washington, D.C. The congressman was arrested by agents after purchasing 3.5 grams of cocaine for $250. While this is...
View ArticleThanks!
It feels unusually fortuitous that Thanksgiving and the beginning of Hanukkah overlap this year. As Jewish practitioners the world over illumine candles of remembrance -- symbolizing a triumph of light...
View ArticleGive Americans a Budget to Be Thankful For
This Thanksgiving, Congress should set aside dysfunction and the austerity mindset and give the American people a reason to be thankful: a federal spending and revenue plan that takes our best...
View ArticlePope Francis, Liberal Populist
On Tuesday, Pope Francis issued an extraordinary, detailed and politically profound apostolic exhortation in which he called on political leaders and politicians to reject trickle-down economic...
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Will They Ever Let Us Back to Our Families?
Shaker relayed the contents of this blog post to his lawyer Clive Stafford Smith in an unclassified phone call I have a very strong sense of family values, which makes my life in Guantánamo Bay a...
View ArticleThe Framers Never Envisioned a 60 Vote Supermajority
In the wake of Senate action last week to restore the Senate practice that nominees receive an up or down vote, there has been a great deal of hyperventilating about whether the rules change is...
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