Big: Grappling With the Size of U.S. Health Care
When it comes to U.S. health care, size is a big deal (sorry). Here are a few facts to make the point. Our health care system serves a country extending 4,600 miles -- from the Bering Strait to Key...
View ArticleChanging the Odds for Boys and Men of Color
When the Rosenberg Foundation began investing in criminal justice reform in 2006, we were driven to take action because of the disproportionate impact of incarceration and the lifelong consequences of...
View ArticleDoes Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and His Islamic Caliphate Mark the Beginning of the...
As the world mark's the 100th anniversary of the First World War, the self-proclaimed Caliph of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, made his first public appearance at the Great Al-Nuri Mosque in...
View ArticleThe World Cup Spilleth Over: As the Soccer Games End, Political Ones Begin
The World Cup has spilleth over. With the FIFA spectacle about to pack up its goodies -- most of their lucre has already been wired out of Brazil -- it's time for hype for the next global spectacle, as...
View ArticleHillary Clinton's Hard Choices Show Who She Really Is
The reviews are in on Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton's history of her four-year tenure as U.S. secretary of state. They are almost all positive. Her book sales are strong -- No. 1 on The New York Times...
View ArticleIt's Time to End the Gay Blood Ban
The first time I tried to give blood, I was turned away. It was my freshman year of college. A friend in my dorm told me about an on-campus blood drive and asked me to go with her. I've never been good...
View ArticleThe Soul of Our Nation
As I write this my heart aches. I am pained by the news stories of thousands of children from Central America who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence and journey to the U.S. alone....
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Your Problem With Guns or Gays Is Not Political
Last month I did something I'd done only once before: I went to a range and shot some guns. Lots of guns. All shapes, ages and sizes. This is a very strange thing to do for a guy born British. Guns...
View ArticleA New Generation Confronts the Culture War and Shrugs
Late last week, the Supreme Court made headlines for a second time when it issued an order allowing Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian school in Illinois, to refuse to cover emergency...
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Dear President Obama: Secure The Border Now Or Risk Civil War
As any grade-schooler, let alone a graduate of Harvard Law School, knows, the first job of a US President is to protect the homeland. Nothing comes before that sacred duty. Not famine abroad, not...
View ArticleAmid Scandal Surrounding VA, Day-to-Day Struggles of Veterans Seeking Health...
This week the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs has held a series of hearings on issues that are impacting veterans and their families. The subject of today's hearing, veteran suicide, also touches...
View ArticleWhat Do You Know About Sistani's Fatwa?
Co-authored by Abbas Kadhim* and Luay Al Khatteeb** Before the security collapse in Mosul, the conventional wisdom among Iraq experts was that Iraq had two options to guarantee security when faced with...
View ArticleTime for Cooler Heads to Prevail on Migrant Children
The recent surge of migrant children from Central America has brought out the worst in our polarized political-media-industrial complex, which in turn is stirring up a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment,...
View ArticleDemocracy: No Longer for Sale?
Ah, 1961. The year -- certain aspects of it, anyway -- are almost impossible to remember. "Whites only" bathrooms, for instance. U.S. Rep. John Lewis, legendary civil rights leader and crosser of...
View ArticleCitigroup's $7 Billion Fraud Deal: The Clique's Still Clicking in DC
Pop quiz: Which bank is widely considered too big to fail, needed (and got) a $45 billion government loan during the financial crisis, recently failed a stress test performed by the Federal Reserve -...
View ArticleThe End of Thinking?
Francis Fukuyama revisited his influential "End of History?" article recently and told readers of the Wall Street Journal (on June 6) that he was right after all. Twenty-five years ago, as communism...
View ArticleBodies in the Desert
The truck stopped at 2 a.m. somewhere in the Sudanese desert. The trafficker called to the six women in the back of the truck, telling them to send out the dark-skinned girl. "I knew he meant me,"...
View ArticleThe United States Must Advance a Mideast Policy Based on Collaboration
What, exactly, does the United States stand for in the Middle East? More important, what would the average Iraqi, Syrian, Egyptian or Yemeni say that it stands for? The suggestion that the United...
View ArticleHow Many People Need to Die? The Manipulation of Grief to Incite War
On July 2, I published an article in Haaretz arguing that governments manipulate our grief in order to push forward political agendas. On July 3, my theory came to life when news broke of 16-year-old...
View ArticleA Time for Criminal Justice Reform
High school dropout. U.S. Army Military Police Officer. Highly decorated undercover cop and narcotics detective. New York City Department of Correction Commissioner. Police Commissioner of the City of...
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