Urban Outfitters' Resistance to Diversity Is as Outdated as Bobby Socks and...
Visit an Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie or Free People clothing store, and you're likely to think, "They know their market" -- fashionable high school and college students and young professionals,...
View Article21st Century Lessons Emerge from Chinese Railroad Workers of the Past
Railroad workers fought racial discrimination, low wages and poor conditions 150 years ago. Today, Americans can avoid the same mistakes for home-care workers. Last month, I attended the induction of...
View ArticleJohn Lewis to Young Leaders: Get in 'Necessary Trouble'
Not every speaker tells a crowd of young leaders that their job is to get into trouble. But that’s part of the message iconic civil rights warrior and now Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) conveyed at this...
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Friday Talking Points -- An Alternate Reality to Consider
This week was notable in many respects in the political world, but one subject overwhelmed almost everything else. We're going to address the prisoner swap and Bowe Bergdahl in an unusual way this...
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Thousands of Prisoners Have Been Exchanged By Israel, Colombia and Others....
Senator Rand Paul recently made the suggestion that we trade over certain Democratic lawmakers to the Taliban. He was obviously joking. However, someone should inform the Senator from Kentucky that...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the Polls
On June 3rd, Zogby Research Services (ZRS) released the results of polling in seven Arab countries (Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE). Conducted during the month of...
View ArticleCan Research Identify a School That's Working?
At first this post started with a long embedded twitter conversation between @TeacherSabrina and @MichaelPetrilli, spinning off from a discussion of how charters and closings lead to re-segregation,...
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Happy 80th Birthday, Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers, who turned 80 on Thursday, has been one of the most prolific and influential figures in American journalism. Not content just to diagnose and document corporate and political malpractice,...
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"Amazing Grace" Garcia and Her Legacy Among Texas Women
Grace Garcia was the matriarch of a tight-knit circle of women working to change the face of power in Texas politics. She was our leader, with a collection of experience, skills and smarts that no one...
View ArticleSunday Roundup
With Friday's numbers showing the addition of 217,000 jobs, the U.S. finally restored the 9 million jobs lost in the recession -- five years after it supposedly ended. But we can keep the champagne on...
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Being Humane and Being Fair
This weekend I had an interesting discussion with a good-intentioned, but misinformed American. She was convinced that the majority of America's poor live fantastic lives receiving free luxury...
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Run, Ted Cruz, Run! Hillary Clinton And The Democrats Need You.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party, and liberals everywhere won a giant victory on the road to the 2016 election. According to Politico, "Sen. Ted Cruz dominated the presidential straw poll at the...
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The Ultimate Guide to Shutting Down Conservative Anti-Piketty Hysteria
Thomas Piketty's wildly popular new book, "Capital in the 21st Century," has been subject to more think pieces than the final episode of "Breaking Bad." Progressives are celebrating the book -- and its...
View ArticleThe Piketty Pontiff: How Pope Francis Is Bringing Catholicism Back to Its...
Pope Francis sent conservatives into a rage on Friday when -- in a comment that had shades of Thomas Piketty -- he called for a global movement toward "equitable economic and social progress," to be...
View ArticleWhat War Are We Fighting Here?
I still remember the day my father taught me how to shoot a gun. We walked into the woods behind our house and he balanced a .22 rifle on my shoulder. He showed me how to aim it at an old tomato juice...
View ArticleI, Welfare Bum
The scene: a small sidewalk construction zone near my home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The foreman, Arnie, had waved me on, but I stopped to ask questions. Hadn't they just redone this sidewalk in the...
View ArticleSkyrocketing Health Insurer CEOs' Paychecks Are "Crazy," Says Executive Comp...
If health insurance companies announce big premium increases on policies for 2015, I hope regulators, lawmakers and the media will look closely at whether they are justified, especially in light of...
View ArticleDo Something for Gun Safety
"Why did Chris die?" Richard Martinez asked all of us after the shooting death of his son and five other students on the University of California, Santa Barbara campus. I cannot get his anguished voice...
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