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In response to Patrick Cockburn and Sir Richard Dearlove
In a recent article in The Independent, Patrick Cockburn made a number of wide and questionable assumptions relating to Saudi Arabia, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the recent crisis in...
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Rethinking the American Dream
The American Dream now costs $130,000 a year. At least that's the figure USA Today came up with in its recent article, "Price Tag for the American Dream." USA Today derived that figure based on a...
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Why Aren't Child Migrants Fleeing to the U.S. From Nicaragua?
This article also appears on the Cato At Liberty website U.S. policy is equally generous to unaccompanied children (UAC) from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua -- but today's child...
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Beyond the Minimum Wage, a Middle-class Share of Capital?
Photo credit: Fibonacci Blue The battle to increase the minimum wage is everywhere, from global fast food worker protests and new local minimum wage laws to executive orders and passionate speeches...
View ArticleFixing Public Pensions: The First Step in Detroit's Long Road to Recovery
On the surface, Detroit may look like a lost cause--a bankrupt city facing a nearly insurmountable fiscal and social crisis. Sure, the Motor City's problems are numerous. A depleted manufacturing base,...
View ArticleRemembering Martin Luther King's Stand for Peace as Violence Continues Abroad...
Our country is currently confronting several high profile issues: *The crisis of hundreds of children from Central American countries seeking residency in our country * The Israel-Palestine conflict *...
View ArticleBan the Bundlers!
Retired Foreign Service officer James Bruno posted a recent blog on Politico entitled "Russian Diplomats are Eating America's Lunch". I have never met Mr. Bruno and have no idea whether he leans to the...
View ArticleSupport Solar, But Not at the Cost of the Working Poor
Recently, many people throughout the country celebrated the first day of summer and the longest day of the year by urging consumers and businesses to "Put Solar on It." I also support "Putting Solar on...
View ArticleWhat I Don't Like About Life in the American Police State
There's a lot to love about America and its people: their pioneering spirit, their entrepreneurship, their ability to think outside the box, their passion for the arts, etc. Increasingly, however, as...
View ArticleImmigration: 32 Years Later
In 1982 The City Club of San Diego held a national conference on immigration. As conferences go this became hugely significant. The genesis of the conference began at the Democratic National Convention...
View ArticleAfrican American Women Disproportionately Suffer From the Wage Gap
Today, July 16, 9to5 will join partner organizations to recognize African American Women's Equal Pay Day. This day represents how far into 2014 African American women must work to earn what white men...
View ArticleRepublican-Controlled House Backs Obama Rules Enabling Marijuana Banking
If you run a medical marijuana dispensary, or a legal marijuana business in Colorado, how do you get paid? Federal laws enacted during the war on drugs in the 1980s barred banks from doing business...
View ArticleWhat the World Cup Can Teach Progressives About Corruption
Brazil's crushing World Cup loss to Germany's world champion team wasn't just bad news for Brazilian football fans. It's also likely to reignite the anger that many Brazilians felt towards the...
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Boehner's Laughable Lawsuit
Speaker of the House John Boehner now seems pretty committed to his effort to bring a lawsuit against President Obama. This is ridiculous on a number of different levels, and a majority of the American...
View ArticleCheney Never Shoots Straight
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is trying hard to salvage his legacy, so he is resorting to spin, distortion and lies. By why is the media paying attention to him? Not even Cheney himself could erase...
View ArticleAnother Unwarranted Attack on Hillary
As the former Vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of the District of Columbia and in my college days as the President of the graduate class at Baruch College in New York, I followed...
View ArticleBasic Safety Is Not Negotiable in Human Space Exploration
Today there is widespread agreement that Mars is our human space exploration "horizon goal." There seems to be less agreement on how safe future human space transportation should be. It is less an...
View ArticleFederal Scientists Ordered to Drop Proposal to Protect Wolverines
The wolverine is a true creature of winter. It is entirely dependent on deep, persistent spring snowpack to protect kits in snowy dens, cache carrion and avoid competition from other predators for...
View ArticleDancing in the Dark
The organization I chair, American Family Voices, is working on a video about the rising populist progressive movement in America, and we did an interview for it with a mentor and dear friend of mine,...
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