How Congress Can Help Keep More Military Families Together
No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America's heroes...
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Where Is the Justice?
Source: Flikr - WiZaNe. The international community could not care any less about justice. This is the unfortunate conclusion I have come to after watching the death toll rise day after day during the...
View ArticleCan the U.S. and Iran Become Trustworthy Rivals?
Diplomats from the P5+1 countries (China, France, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom) and negotiators from the United States and Iran have been diligently striving to meet the July 20 deadline for...
View ArticleRight-to-Lifers Are Hypocrites -- And Here's Why
A caveat: I don't include nuns in this formulation, simply because "right-to-life" has come to mean the anti-abortion movement exclusively. Nuns have the ethical and spiritual integrity to be...
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Down Where the River Ends
The frontier between Texas and Mexico has defied a cultural and economic simplicity since long before General John "Black Jack" Pershing wasted almost two years fruitlessly chasing Pancho Villa through...
View ArticleIsraelis and Palestinians Fight: Don't Forget Jordan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas don't trust each other and they don't like each other. That may be the case, but they both need to put aside those...
View ArticleThe Hypocrisy of Extreme Partisanship
Guns and Welfare! The Right loves to defend gun rights, and the Left loves to defend access to welfare. However, any casual observer can observe that partisans on both sides make the same structural...
View ArticleOvercoming Evil
Nelba Márquez-Greene is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent her life helping others. In December 2012 she was the coordinator of a youth and adolescent outpatient psychiatric clinic...
View ArticleFinally! Someone Explains What All Those Obamacare Numbers Mean!
You're going to hear a lot about Obamacare this fall, especially from Republicans. They'll try to convince you that it was a bad deal. They'll throw numbers at you to make you think that the cost of...
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Friday Talking Points -- First Marijuana TV Ad Created
We're back! Yes, we took last week off (for our nation's birthday), so it's been two weeks since we've taken a look at politics through our own special lens, which (as always) will feature heavy...
View ArticleThe 'Morality' of the Powerful
"...we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons." Golda Meir, Prime Minister of...
View ArticleNot a Symbol, A Breakthrough: 30 Years Since Geraldine
Today marks 30 years since Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman to join a major party's presidential ticket. When she joined Vice President Walter Mondale's presidential ticket in 1984, Geraldine...
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Putin In Havana, Seeking an Ally or a Satellite?
Putin and Raul Castro together on Cuban television. (14ymedio) "These are the last sweets!" The cry could be the simple proclamation of a candy seller, but I heard it 23 years ago at my high school in...
View ArticleNew Zealand Opposition Party Offers Up Radical Shift in Rape Cases
New Zealand's second-largest political party has proposed a radical change for the criminal justice system concerning rape cases -- and we could not be more into it. The opposition party, should it...
View ArticleWhy Forcibly Medicating the Mentally Ill Is Dangerous
In a 9-2 vote on Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved Laura's Law, which allows judges to order involuntary outpatient treatment, including forced medication, for certain patients...
View ArticleHow It Started in Gaza
Beginnings matter. Questions about culpability and responsibility, about the narrow cynicism that defines so much of life in the Gaza Strip, sequence and motive -- they all go to beginnings. Why are...
View ArticleImmigration, Child Refugees and Horrible, Horrible Politics
"Young girls who we interviewed had been threatened for nonconsensual sexual relationships with some members of these gangs. One girl told us she left because they had threatened her multiple times and...
View ArticleCentral American Minors Seek Refuge in the US: A Crisis of Children as...
Children have been all over the news, and for the wrong reasons. Three missing Israeli teens were found dead in the occupied West Bank, sparking the reprisal killing of a Palestinian boy who was burned...
View ArticleBeyond Accomodation: Hobby Lobby as a Challenge to Our Perception of...
Despite the fact that Americans continue to walk away from organized religion en masse, the nation continues to engage in its perpetual struggle to characterize religious institutions. The Supreme...
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