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Love in the Time of Israel's War on Africans
When I first began in 2011 to document anti-foreigner rallies in Israel, I would often ask those in attendance why they were calling for the government to kick out of the country all African...
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9 Reasons Why Government Doesn't Work
State, county and municipal governments are mainly in the business of buying services for their constituents, paying providers to tackle a broad spectrum of social problems -- health, education,...
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SNL "Making Copies" Guy, In Business With For-Profit College, Attacks Obama
Barack. Barack-O. Barack-O-Rama. The Obamanator! Makin' some copies. Copying the Gainful Employment Rule. 845 pages! You remember Rob Schneider on "Saturday Night Live" with his breakout character,...
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My Life on the Walmart Treadmill
I work at Walmart #4609 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and it feels like running on a treadmill. I'm constantly giving an effort, expending energy, yet I stay in the same position. For two years I've been...
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5 Practical Actions to Help Free Imprisoned Sudanese Mother
It's a mother's nightmare. Forcibly separated from her husband and currently caring for her two tiny children in a Sudanese prison, Meriam Ibrahim awaits 100 lashes and death by hanging. Condemned to...
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Student Loan Sharking?
President Obama yesterday did two incredibly important things in regards to student loans and debt: He signed an executive order allowing 5 million student-loan borrowers to cap their payments at 10...
View ArticleWhy Pearson Tests Our Kids
Pearson invited me to breakfast. Well not just me. I received an email inviting Long Island educators to a free "Breakfast Briefing" promoting "Pearson Personalized Learning" that would empower me to...
View ArticleMitch McConnell's Democratic Challenger, Allison Grimes, Is Wrong Too
There's not a dime's bit of difference between them. That's the conclusion I draw after reading what Kentucky's two candidates for the U.S. Senate said about the draft carbon pollution regulation of...
View ArticleA Year Ago Today...
A year ago today, I stood where I could not have imagined I ever would. On June 11, 2013 I had the privilege of introducing President Barack Obama at the White House before his speech on immigration...
View ArticleTime for Congress to Smarten Up and Reduce Student Loan Debt
How many shoes have to drop in the student loan crisis before Congress will finally do something to stem the flood of student debt and crack down on bad corporate actors who are profiteering off the...
View ArticleThe Glaring Moral Issue Omitted from the President's Emissions Policy
Climate change is indeed the moral issue of our time. Global warming will make every problem, including poverty, inequality, disease, racism and famine even worse. Climate change is real, has a major...
View ArticleAre You Serious?
I didn't place in the top two in last week's House of Representatives District 33 primary election, and while of course I was disappointed I was certainly not devastated or even truly sad. But I've...
View ArticleIsrael: The Danger From Within
The nearly seven decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to overshadow the brewing conflict between the Jewish majority and the Arab minority in Israel. There is overwhelming evidence that...
View ArticleThe Root of Our Foreign Policy Blunders
And so the inevitable is unfolding: a possible collapse of the U.S.-imposed Iraqi state, the apparent triumph of the most brutal extremists in the world, and more to come in Syria, Afghanistan, and...
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The Eric Cantorectomy -- Political Football 2014
Eric Cantor is toast. Blown out. Kaput. Many of the pundits are cheering the Tea Party for this victory. All Tea Party all the time. Maybe Cantor's district was gerrymandered as too red. Irritation...
View ArticleIs Snowden Lying?
Many readers have asked whether Snowden was lying in his recent NBC interview, knowing I have worked for the government and corporations spotting lies by how someone behaves. When I attempt to evaluate...
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Why We Should Abolish the GDP
Co-written with Lew Daly Imagine this: your state is thinking about building a new coal plant. Gross domestic product measures how much money that project would produce. But it can't account for the...
View ArticleKoch Brothers' UNCF Gift Is Worst Symptom of HBCU Financial Crisis
David and Charles Koch have given hundreds of millions of dollars to restoring and maintaining the fine arts, finding a cure for cancer and conservative politics. A $25 million gift for them could...
View ArticleWhy Racism in America Is Not the Healthy Choice in Medicine or Education
A well-respected physician colleague told me recently that he did not understand why my research focused on racial and ethnic disparities in health care. He claimed racism no longer exists in the...
View ArticleBrat Worst: Libertarian and Tool of Wall Street
Who is David Brat, the out-of-nowhere college professor who beat Eric Cantor in the GOP primary? John Judis has an interesting article in the New Republic suggesting that Brat is in the tradition of...
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