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Women's and Immigrant's Rights, Hand in Hand
Beverly Upton, head of the SF Domestic Violence Consortium, addressing a large crowd Beverly Upton, head of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, addressed a crowd from the steps of City...
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Would Jesus Accept Climate Science?
Climate change is one of the biggest and most divisive environmental issues we've faced. Not only is the science scary and the challenge daunting, but it calls into question the very way we live our...
View ArticleHenry Miller on War
War is much in the news these days, to the great distress of the world. There is not a continent on Earth on which some form of violence is expressing our species capacity for hatred and cruelty. What...
View ArticleSunday Roundup
This week provided some notable examples of Crime and Punishment in modern America. First, football star Ray Rice received a two-game suspension for knocking unconscious his then-fiancée in a hotel...
View ArticleHow I Became Interested in the Death Penalty and Why I'm Against It
Since I wrote my last piece on the death penalty, "Hey, Arizona, Next Time Try Scaphism," I've been asked why I care so much about it and why it angers me so much. I am angry because I have lived in a...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Is the Biggest and Latest Threat to American Women and Their Kids
So, the man who pretended to feed the poor at a soup kitchen has released his plan for welfare reform. This week, Paul Ryan, who cashed federal support checks in the form of social security payments...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the Korean President: 61 Years After Armistice, Democracy Is...
Open Letter To Her Excellency Park Geun-hye, President, Republic of Korea Dear Madame President, As someone who, during 16 years in the United States Congress, has celebrated the US-South Korean...
View ArticleRace Will Continue to Haunt Rand Paul
There's good news and bad news for Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul on the thorny issue of race. First there's the good. He's far and away the only 2016 GOP prospective presidential candidate who has...
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Media on Middle East, ACA in Court, GMOs in Food
LISTEN HERE: By Mark Green Matalin and Corn debate déjà vu news - Israel back in Gaza and ACA back in court. Consensus: there's not a media bias but a rough balance between pro-Israel talking heads...
View ArticleBoehner Sues Obama in Order to Implement Health Law Faster
When I learned that House Speaker John Boehner is suing President Barack Obama, I thought about a number of good reasons for something to limit executive actions. Would it be to limit NSA spying on its...
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The Lamp Beside the Golden Door: Protecting Refugee Children at our Borders
Nelson Mandela once said, "We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear." That phrase from the Noble Prize-winning global beacon should be our only...
View ArticleThe Limits of American Power: A Letter to the Left
When I was young, a mantra among progressives was that America had to stop operating as global policeman. Vietnam was the signal episode of arrogant and ultimately self-defeating American overreach....
View ArticleWalgreens May Face Consumer, Political Backlash if it Elects to Become a...
Within the next several weeks Illinois-based Walgreens drug store chain is set to decide if it will become what President Obama referred to last week as a "corporate deserter" by - in essence - tearing...
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Which View of Christianity Does The Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby Ruling...
Injecting the Bible into politics inevitably turns lawmakers into theologians. For example, Tea Party Congressman Stephen Fincher declared last year that, "The role of citizens, of Christians, of...
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Russian BUK Missile System v. American HAWK Missile System - Is There Any...
It is an understatement to say that the whole world was stunned to learn on Thursday, July 17, 2014 that a commercial/civilian aircraft had been shot out of the sky by a medium range surface-to-air...
View ArticleWhy This Is the Right Time to Cooperate With Iran
With the world seemingly exploding around us, it may be time to consider our relationship with Iran. As Henry Kissinger said once, to solve the biggest problems, sometimes it is necessary to expand...
View ArticleStatement on the 2014 Medicare Trustees' Report
Medicare has grown somewhat stronger financially in both the short and long term since last year but continues to face long-term financing challenges, today's report from its trustees shows. The...
View ArticleLess Divided than We Look
Are we becoming a more polarized people, as a new and important study from the Pew Research Center seems to demonstrate? In spite of the hype surrounding this new research, I argue that the public is...
View ArticleWhy We're Wrong About Affirmative Action: Stereotypes, Testing and the 'Soft...
Earlier this month a divided Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the University of Texas' right to use race amongst its criteria for undergraduate admissions, however limited that right may be. While...
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Marijuana's Tipping Point?
Has marijuana legalization reached the tipping point, where positive change is now all but inevitable? That question might have been seen as wildly optimistic even just last week, but over the weekend...
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