Congress Proposes to Fix Restitution for Child Pornography Victims
Faced with a draconian decision by the United States Supreme Court in late April which all but eliminated meaningful restitution for child pornography victims, U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and...
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The Russian Dream Is All About Empire
The Russian Dream is for the country to be a great empire and to inspire fear. Interviews I recently conducted in Moscow all ended with the same words: "First, the Olympic Games in Sochi, then we...
View ArticleIt Can Be Done: Negotiate an End to the Siege in Gaza
The gutless American political class has abdicated its responsibility for the actions of the Israel Defense Forces. Few people living in the Middle East or anywhere else make the distinction between...
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A Mississippi Freedom Summer Pilgrimage: An Atrocity We Must Never Forget
JULIA CASS (CO-AUTHOR) The site in the photograph below, along a back road near Philadelphia, Mississippi, was the final stop on our step-by-step journey through the final tragic day of Freedom Summer...
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Who Should Decide? States' Rights, Local Authority and the Future of the...
"[W]ithout power and independence, a town may contain good subjects, but it can have no active citizens." That was the conclusion of Alexis de Tocqueville after touring a youthful American Republic in...
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A Proud Russkiy Citizen or an Upatriotic Traitor of Mother Russia?
I refuse to be defined by my passport -- both literally and metaphorically. Surely there's more to an individual than his personal identification number and/or the color of his passport? There was a...
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Friday Talking Points -- Prelude To Silly Season
Planes have been dropping out of the sky at an alarming rate recently. I don't know what portents such omens signify, but the media certainly has had no lack of videos of debris fields to show, that's...
View ArticleTime for Some Candor From the Supreme Court
In most of the cases it decides, the Supreme Court is what it presents itself as: a court of law. The justices apply preexisting rules and standards set forth, for example, in the Constitution and...
View ArticleThe Lament of the Conservative Left
David Selbourne, in the left-of-center New Statesmen, writes: With socialism at the end of its historical evolution, the 'left' now lacks a coherent sense of what progress is. It has only a ragbag of...
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Back to Iraq's Future: A Constructive Partnership With the UN
Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Najaf, Iraq, 24 July 2014 Against all odds, the process of establishing an Iraqi Government has finally made concrete progress in the...
View ArticleIngenious Compromise: Reason for Hope
Here are some headlines appearing in major newspapers recently: • "A Deeply Divided Supreme Court . . ."; • "Divided Congress is Deeply Fractionalized . . ."; • "The Deep Divide in Congress . . ."; •...
View Article'NYT' Op-Ed Militates for Higher Oil Prices and Fewer American Jobs
The NYTimes Op-Ed Militates For Higher Oil Prices and Fewer American Jobs in Thursday's NYTimes Op-Ed "Let Our Oil and Gas Go" Mr. Steven Rattner demonstrates that he lives in an oil industry induced...
View Article'Washington Post' Fails in Gaza
Press coverage of this ugly war on Gaza has only served to remind us of the fundamental problem that has plagued the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the very beginning: Israelis are seen as real...
View ArticleGunplay on the Highway: You've Been Warned
Watch the latest news and you have to wonder: Is this what the future has in store?
View ArticleCircus Politics Is Alive and Well in the Philippines
Anyone familiar with Philippine politics will recognize the circus-like atmosphere that prevails on an ongoing basis, and how that often manifests itself in the judicial arena. We previously questioned...
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Ramadan: Religious Fervor Taken Over by Media Capitalists?
For the first time in my life, I got an opportunity to spend Ramadan outside my home country, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and is considered to...
View ArticleThree Cities Show How Food Trucks Live and Die on Political Whim
Maybe you don't care about food trucks. Maybe you eat leftovers at your desk, or frequent the restaurant next to your office. But if you care about people having access to good, reasonably priced food,...
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There's a New World Superpower -- And 4 Other Things I Learned at Netroots...
I had barely touched down in California when it was time to take off again. This time, to Detroit, to attend Netroots Nation, billed as the United States' biggest annual gathering of progressive...
View ArticleRepublicans Again Violate Their Own Principles
By the time you read this, Congressional Republicans will have overwhelmingly voted to violate one of their most cherished guiding principles: A service should be paid for by those who use the service....
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Will Labor Solidarity Save the Post Office?
The United States Postal Service (USPS) management just ran into a possible game-changing obstacle to its shameful pursuit of a fully privatized post office: labor solidarity. Here's the background....
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