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U.S. president Barack Obama invited nearly 50 Africa heads of state to Washington D.C. this week, for an unprecedented summit aimed at forging a stronger relationship with the continent. A series of...
View ArticleThe Heightened Domestic Crack Down and Human Rights Violations
History appears to be repeating itself in the Islamic Republic. Whenever many Iranians believe that there will be more socio-political, individual as well as socio-economic freedoms in the country, due...
View ArticleA Former Obama Aide's Revealing 'Rolling Stone' Article
Reid Cherlin used to work for The Obama Administration. After the election of the new President in 2008, he worked in the Press Secretary's Office as one of its spokespeople. He left the gig a couple...
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A Very Italian Mayor: Bill De Blasio
photo courtesy of Carlo Hermann/Controluce When I was in Italy last month, visiting my family and friends in Cava de' Tirreni and in my beloved Naples, I had a chance to talk to them about the hugely...
View ArticleGetting Money in Gaza: An Interview With Palestine's Central Banker
Amidst the destruction and death in Gaza, the Palestine Monetary Authority has kept cash flowing to a besieged population struggling to survive in a devastated economy. Gaza's 45 bank branches have...
View ArticleNot Everyone Has the Tools to Become Rich: How Our Childhood Shapes Our...
Monkeys can teach us a lot about economics. Emotionally, their brains are very similar to ours. As fellow mammals, monkeys and humans both develop strong emotions that set us apart from the rest of the...
View ArticleChemical Industry Manipulations Fail to Change Scientific Fact
The verdict is in... again! Formaldehyde is a known human carcinogen. This is not earthshaking news or even news, but apparently Congress felt it was worth a million of your tax dollars to confirm what...
View ArticleThe Rebirth of Stakeholder Capitalism?
In recent weeks, the managers, employees, and customers of a New England chain of supermarkets called "Market Basket" have joined together to oppose the board of director's decision earlier in the year...
View ArticleSunday Roundup
This week we went back to the future as President Obama authorized air strikes in Iraq, along with humanitarian airdrops of food and water to thousands of Yazidis besieged by Islamic State fighters....
View ArticleExhibit A of the Guantanamo Failure Resumes This Week
As the United States considers engaging in yet another war, with the start of air strikes Friday in Iraq, let's not forget we're still stuck with the remnants of an old one. The U.S. still has some...
View ArticleWar Is Hell
"War is hell" ...so said General William Tecumseh Sherman, of U.S. Civil War fame... or infamy (depending on your side), who burned the city of Atlanta to the ground and scorched a path across Georgia...
View ArticleWhy Russia Could Invade Ukraine
The crisis in Ukraine continues to get worse against a backdrop of conflicting signals. Pro-Russian separatists have called for a ceasefire but Ukrainian forces continue to pound them in Donetsk. At...
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Reagan's Magical Mystery... According to Ron Reagan, Rick Perlstein, Lou Cannon
LISTEN HERE: By Mark Green Ron Reagan and Ron Christie discuss clashing portrayals of Ronald Reagan -- Perlstein's smart, shrewd charmer (The Invisible Bridge) and Cannon's under-informed racantour...
View ArticleHell's Problems: Genocide and 'Humanitarian Intervention'
"Hell" is religious term that means the extreme of evil and suffering, and without a doubt, one of those extremes is genocide. There seems little doubt that the self-styled radical Islamist group,...
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Migrant Debts and Obama's Non-Solution to the Child Immigrant Crisis
The U.S.-Mexico border wall outside of Calexico, CA. Photo/Murphy Woodhouse ----- [Edgar's] going to go again. He's leaving within a month. But if there was some alternative, some opportunity here in...
View ArticleThe Obama Paradox
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman's extended interview with President Obama shed some light on how Obama can be well-informed, thoughtful, prudent -- yet still be seen as faltering as a foreign...
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From Truth and Reconciliation to Lies and Obfuscation: The Senate RDI Report
On a bright spring day in 2005, in a country I cannot name, I entered a drab, unremarkable building, a gateway to a grim, unaccustomed world. Its spaces were impersonal, antiseptic, institutional. The...
View ArticleWhy Does the U.S. Keep Getting Involved in Conflict?
Ukraine. Gaza. Syria. Yemen. Pakistan. If it feels like the United States is always at war somewhere, that's because it is. Not just Iraq and Afghanistan - the two wars we all know about. And, granted,...
View ArticleAbortion Talk Boot Camps: A Field Guide
"Rape," the instructors say, "is a four-letter word. Purge it from your lexicon." And as to anything else abortion-related, "Keep it brief." Such is the strategy reportedly being taught Republican...
View ArticleCuomo, Corruption and Voters
There's been some, not a lot, of national attention to a New York scandal that has kept the chattering and political classes agog and aghast. Long story short, Cuomo kept hammering the legislature as...
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