Wall Street's Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Still Trying to Get Taxpayer Bailouts
Shocking but true: all 11 of Wall Street's biggest too-big-to-fail banks just flunked a key test, proving that they still pose a huge, needless and unacceptable risk to U.S. taxpayers, the financial...
View ArticleIt Is Lonely Being an Israeli Lefty
A year after the 1967 Six-Day War, Professor Yeshahyahu Leibowitz, an Israeli Jewish-orthodox academic, warned that the military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights, and the Sinai...
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With Nixon's Resignation, an Era of Division Began
Forty years ago, on August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon appeared on national television to announce that the following day he would resign, the first and so far the only American president to do so. For...
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A Polish Song For Ukraine's Revolution
This is a story of a song. Revolutions are often fertile breeding grounds for good music, and the song this story is about was at the heart of the Ukrainian Revolution (or "Euromaidan") earlier this...
View ArticleWhat Is an Honorable Response to Israel/Gaza?
In 1968, Walter Cronkite did the unthinkable. After visiting Vietnam to assess the state of the war in light of the Tet Offensive, he produced documentary coverage of the situation. And then, to the...
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Japan's Robust Self-Defense Is Good for Asia
FROM PROJECT SYNDICATE CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Since the end of World War II, Japan has been ruled by an American-written "peace constitution," Article 9 of which prohibits war and limits Japanese forces...
View ArticleStraw Today, Stones Tomorrow
As the big bad wolf will gladly confirm, it's way easier to blow-down a house of straw. And so it is with arguments. An argument made of straw is easier to demolish than one that's made of stone. Why...
View ArticleCan Gaza Ever Be Pacified?
The Gaza Strip will never fit neatly into a future Palestinian state jigsaw puzzle. Even in a utopian final two-state settlement it will always be separated from the West Bank across 30 Israeli desert...
View ArticleHatred in the Nuclear Era
Before nuclear weapons, after nuclear weapons... "The latter era, of course," writes Noam Chomsky, "opened on August 6, 1945, the first day of the countdown to what may be the inglorious end of this...
View ArticleObama Administration Turns Its Back on Poultry Processing Workers
Only in Washington, D.C. is nothing portrayed as something. Out in the nation, not so much. And so it was late last week that the Obama Administration took a victory lap for not making life even more...
View ArticleWhat the Times Did on Marijuana Was Big!
I'm a New York Times junkie. I got hooked in my early teens and have rarely gone a day without a fix. It is, apart from email, the first and principal thing I look at on my mobile. All of which is to...
View ArticleWhen Moms Are Mad, They Vote!
This past week, the nation mourned the passing of former White House Press Secretary James "The Bear" Brady, an American hero who stood up to the gun lobby despite being in a wheel chair, put there by...
View ArticleBorder Problem, Beltway Crisis
There is a problem at the border, but it is not a problem caused by children, and it is not a problem caused by giving fleeing children due process to claim asylum. In less than a year, nearly 60,000...
View ArticleWhat Message Must John Kerry Bring to Myanmar Leaders?
The U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is arriving in Myanmar's capital Nay Pyi Taw on August 9 for a three-day visit. The chief diplomat will meet government leaders and attend a series of meetings,...
View ArticleSummer Reading Suggestions for Congress and the President on Child Refugees
As Congress heads into recess, we hope they use their break to improve their understanding of the issues surrounding the influx of child refugees at the border. To listen to the solutions proposed by...
View ArticleAugust 2014
On the 100 year anniversary of the start of World War I, with children dying in the streets of Gaza and the world still blowing up at discordantly frequent intervals, I was thumbing through a book of...
View ArticleImmigration Humanitarian Crisis
President Barack Obama should take executive action on immigration in an effort to ease the current humanitarian crisis along the border, even though some House Republicans have threatened to attempt...
View ArticleRap Music Scores Big Legal Win in New Jersey: Now on to the Supreme Court
If the Supreme Court of New Jersey's August 4 decision in New Jersey vs. Skinner is any indication, 2014 could prove to be the year when courts -- including, perhaps, the U.S. Supreme Court -- finally...
View ArticleCongress on the Playground
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. Mark Twain, Following the Equator Now that members of Congress have returned...
View ArticleWhat Are the Benefits and Costs of EPA's Proposed CO2 Regulation?
On June 2, the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long-awaited proposed regulation to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing sources in the...
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