Why Is Obama Silent About Meriam?
Last week, a woman gave birth while chained to a prison wall in Sudan. But as soon as baby Maya is weaned, her mother will hang for the crime of "apostasy." Meriam Ibrahim considers herself a...
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California's Top-Two Primary Eliminates Third-Party Rivals
Primary elections originated in the American progressive movement and were intended to take the power of candidate nomination away from party leaders and deliver it to the people. California's Top Two...
View ArticleTime for Congress to Investigate Bill Gates' Coup
The story about Bill Gates' swift and silent takeover of American education is startling. His role and the role of the U.S. Department of Education in drafting and imposing the Common Core standards on...
View ArticlePakistan: "It's Happening Right Now"
PHOENIX - On Sunday here I was the main speaker at the annual Daal Saag Luncheon of the local Pakistan Information and Cultural Organization (PICO). I had just sat down after giving my speech, when the...
View ArticleSlender Man Meets the First Amendment: Why Suing the Character's Creator...
Can Eric Knudsen, the creator of the fictional character Slender Man, be held civilly liable for the recent violence suffered by the young victim of a stabbing attack in Waukesha, Wisconsin? The answer...
View ArticleThe litany of woes for government HR
The federal HR community faces a litany of woes: limits placed on new hiring, inflexible hiring procedures that often discourage or rule out high-quality applicants, continuing budget constraints and...
View ArticleCivil Rights, 1964 and What We've Lost
According to Gallup, 15 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing - just slightly better than the approval rating Gallup reported a few years ago for polygamy. Once upon a time,...
View Article'Divide and Conquer' Vs. 'Consolidate and Strengthen'
"Divide and conquer" is a venerable political adage. The Obama administration has taken a different, quite novel course in dealing with rivals: "consolidate and strengthen." Washington has performed...
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Habsburg Nostalgia: Europe's Most Embarrassing Anachronism? Paradise Saved?
In a recently published piece entitled "The House of Habsburg, Revisited", the author, Simon Winder, engages in a thoughtful yet hyperbolic polemic ridiculing the recent resurgence of interest in the...
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Exiled: The Obama Administration's Horrifying Deportation Record
"Let's go home." These are the closing words of A Better Life, which my character, the undocumented gardener Carlos Galindo, says as he prepares to walk into the desert and begin his journey back to...
View ArticleCancer Care in the US: The Achilles Heel of a Profit-Driven System
Care of cancer in this country is outpacing other health care problems and is already pricing itself beyond the reach of many Americans unfortunate enough to contract the disease. In my 2009 book, The...
View ArticleSolidarity Economies: A Guerrilla War Against Capitalism
An interview with Nicolás Cruz Tineo by Beverly Bell and Jessica Hsu Nicolás Cruz Tineo is an economist and director of the Dominican Republic-based Institute for the Development of Associative...
View ArticleConcealed Carry Laws Don't Decrease Gun Violence -- But the NRA Continues to...
The NRA and its academic acolytes like John Lott have been tirelessly promoting the idea that guns protect us from crime, which is another way of saying that everyone should carry a gun, which is...
View ArticleErdoğan to Israel, for the Win!
From an ugly brawl between the Islamic scholar Fetullah Gülen's movement and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the Soma mining disaster, 2014 has not been Turkey's year. Last weekend marked the...
View ArticleHow Putin's Russia Reminds Me of When I Was Censored by the Department of Jokes
I was recently performing my one-man Broadway show "Happily Ever Laughter" at a theater in Los Angeles. With great expectation (a feeling every professional comedian knows so well), I delivered a new...
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Solving California's Water Problems
For over 150 years, Californians have argued, litigated, yelled, and otherwise fought over water. California is a big state -- we have redwood forests, desert regions, mountains, coasts, rich...
View ArticleGeneration Nowhere
Reading Frank Bruni's recent op-ed column entitled "Dear Millennials, We're Sorry," you'll get the same self-serving back and forth between those apologizing for the arrogance of the 40+ crowd and...
View ArticleThoughts on Fatherhood in the 21st Century
Growing up, if I wanted to play catch, I often had to play it alone. Sometimes I'd even aim at a tree for lack of person with a glove at the other end of the yard. I admit, the tree wasn't a very good...
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#TimeToAct on Sri Lanka
Why has the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict forgotten the Sri Lankan survivors? Murdered victims of the conflict, including the journalist Isaipriya, who was raped and executed The...
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