Sunday Roundup
This week, President Obama's $3.7 billion request to deal with the border crisis stalled as lawmakers introduced a bill that purportedly aims to help young unaccompanied immigrants but actually just...
View ArticleAddicted Republicans Wage War on Latino Voters
It's an addiction. Republicans really can't help themselves -- when they see an opportunity to irritate the Latino electorate, they go for it with gusto. Republicans have transformed the humanitarian...
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Bad Borders Make Bad Neighbors: Israel/Gaza, Ukraine/Russia, Texas/Mexico
LISTEN HERE: By Mark Green Border clashes are suddenly breaking out making immigration reform and Middle East peace now even less likely. Shrum and Lowry debate origins and solutions and a) whether...
View ArticleMH17 and the Long Term Costs of Russia's Ukraine Incursion
Policymakers, especially policymakers who have never seen action, are often seduced by covert operations. They see them as the perfect policy instrument: cheap, deniable, effective. Yes, there can be...
View ArticleU.S.-Africa Leaders' Summit: Let's Ensure It's on the Positive Side of History
If you are an Africa-hand, activist or development partner, you are either directly or indirectly involved with the upcoming Washington, D.C. August 4-6, 2014, U.S.-Africa Leaders' Summit....
View ArticleIn Comcast/Time Warner Merger, Public Interest Is Paramount
New York State's Public Service Commission (PSC) is currently reviewing Comcast's plan to purchase Time Warner Cable for over $45 billion, a merger which would link the nation's two largest cable...
View ArticleObama and the World's Ills
It's hard to recall a time when the world presented more crises with fewer easy solutions. And for the Republicans, all of these woes have a common genesis: American weakness projected by Barack Obama....
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Spending $49 Billion On a 'Secure Border' Because of Tea Party Prejudice is...
Aside from the thoughtful and humane analysis by Glenn Beck and Hugh Hewitt of the recent border crisis, conservatives have utilized this immigration issue to further the need for a "secure border."...
View ArticleGOP: Tax Evasion as a Back Door Strategy
My CBPP colleague Chuck Marr flags something important from a recent press release by Rep. Dave Camp, the Republican Chair of the tax writing committee in the House. In regard to their bill to patch...
View ArticleThe Youngest Victims of the Drug War at Home and Abroad
Perhaps the terrible truth of drug war violence will finally be addressed as all of America bore witness this summer to the horror of some 52,000 unaccompanied children who were fleeing devastating...
View ArticleHow Hobby Lobby Killed Religious Liberty
The Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision is a disaster for women, and we can lay the blame squarely at the feet of the Obama administration. In a futile attempt to keep religious extremists onside, the...
View ArticleWhy Triumphant Jihadis in Iraq Will Join Assad to Crush Opposition in Aleppo
BEIRUT -- The world's most feared jihadi group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), is parlaying its dramatic gains in Iraq into Syria. Already flush with cash and weapons, ISIL stands to...
View ArticleStop Pulling Up the Ladder on Immigrants: The Wilberforce Act and Our Short...
"We're bound together because, like them, we too dare to hope -- hope that our children will always find here the land of liberty in a land that is free. We dare to hope too that we'll understand our...
View ArticleIncome Inequality Hurts All of Us
Martha Mendoza's heartbreaking article, Survival and Defeat in Silicon Valley Slum illustrates the struggle that our homeless brothers and sisters face. She rightly points out that in San Jose, CA,...
View ArticleEyewitness to History: From the 'Amen Corner' in the East Room
I got to watch history happen this morning. I got to sit in the East Room of the White House with about 200 other invited guests and boatload of reporters and watch the President of the United States...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Flying Over War Zones
The downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 over the troubled region of eastern Ukraine raises many critical questions, especially for the loved ones of the 290 civilians on board that commercial...
View ArticleCuba, the United States and Human Trafficking
This post first appeared in Opera Mundi The United States has once again placed Cuba on the list of countries involved in human trafficking. However, international institutions repudiate Washington's...
View ArticleThe Israeli-Palestinian War: Which Channel to Watch?
We have all seen the deaths in Gaza. We are appalled. Terrible violence. We see it. There is outrage. Rightly so, we want it stopped. And when it stops? We change the channel and go on to find...
View ArticleProgress: How Badly Do We Want It?
It's easy to make fun of the far right. Their obsession with guns, their desire to push their preachy religiosity on the rest of us, their denial of basic science, their weird focus on women's...
View ArticleA Grandmother on Moon Thoughts, 45 Years Later
Time and attention are quirky. We were in Washington when the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957 starting the Space race, aware but focused more on new baby, new job. We had returned from Malaya on our...
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