Expatriate Tax Sense or Broad-Brush Overreach: The U.S. Foreign Account Tax...
An effort to control tax havens for those hiding their assets overseas has resulted in broad brush impacts on hard-working expatriate Americans living and working out of country. The previously delayed...
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For Freelancers, Growing Opportunity and Risk
The recent beheading of freelance journalist James Foley (pictured above) by militants from the Islamic State highlights the growing dangers that freelance reporters covering conflict zones face. NAM...
View ArticleAnimal Rights Activists Are an Easy Punchline, But Their Cause Deserves...
My friend and founder of The Daily Banter, Ben Cohen, wrote a post today titled, Here Are 7 Causes More Important Than Animal Rights. I absolutely agree that all of the issues he listed are important,...
View ArticleAir Power
Prior to Operation Desert Storm, it was established naval doctrine that aircraft carriers could never operate in the Persian Gulf. The area was so small it left the great behemoths vulnerable to...
View ArticleHas the Consumer Finally Defeated the Worker?
PARIS -- The tide of the battle that has been playing out for nearly two centuries between the economy and politics, between market forces and democracy, between capitalism and the state, is now...
View ArticleWhat's Next? 5 Year-Olds with RPGs?
Like many kids in the late '70s/early '80s, I attended summer camp in the Catskills. One of the activities for our group -- a group of about 20 rambunctious boys of 11-12 years-old-- was Riflery. This...
View ArticleFerguson and Beyond
The conflict in Ferguson with regard to the killing of Michael Brown has two common denominators with the public: justice and accountability. These mean widely varying things based upon your...
View ArticleDigitizing Democracy: Shifting Power to the People
It's common knowledge that getting people to the polls during political primaries in America has become something of a fool's errand, so headlines like "Major spending on elections met with total...
View ArticleHow ISIS Could Change the War on Terror Dramatically
As the U.S. government debates the best strategy to neutralize ISIS, it should also consider the wider aspects of the War on Terror it has been fighting for more than a decade. After September 11,...
View ArticleGaza as Seen by a Progressive Zionist
As a progressive (or "liberal" as I grew up calling myself), I've been troubled by the divide I've seen in the progressive community over the Israeli-Hamas conflict. While there are many good...
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What Does It Feel Like to Be Racially Profiled?
This question originally appeared on Quora:What does it feel like to be racially profiled? Answer by Raj Ramanan, Co-Founder, Loku I am an American of Indian (sub-continental) descent, and I have been...
View Article'Anti-Immigrant' Jeff Sessions and Alabama's Racist Voter ID Law
Precious Memories, Part IV [Final]. I never expected to miss the Southland. Going north to Harvard and then west to law school, I returned South only once to law clerk for a federal judge in Mobile,...
View ArticleSaving Native American Languages
Language and Native Americans are in the news as media outlets around the nation announce that they will no longer use the "R" word in conjunction with Washington's NFL franchise. They join a...
View ArticleLeading From Behind, and Proud of It
Egypt and the UAE went forward with air strikes against Islamists in Libya without informing the United States. They did this presumably because they are concerned with the growing influence of...
View ArticleExcessive Force
Public order and justice require police who reflect and respect those they serve. When civil disorder followed the fatal shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in...
View ArticleFrom Labor Day to Election Day, 'These People' Are Ready for Action
This Labor Day weekend, millions of Americans will enjoy the final stretch of summer. Most won't think about the 1.6 million hardworking public service workers of AFSCME who are on duty 24/7. But...
View ArticleThe Myth of a Post-Racial America
The election of Barack Obama was the Lexington and Concord in the latest great battle of race in America. We are a nation at war with itself. For all of our desire to move beyond the narrow confines of...
View ArticleWhen Men Lose in Politics, It's Never Their Fault
Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's primary election loss this summer to a little-known Tea Party challenger was a shock. But the reasons given for the loss were not. After the history-making,...
View ArticleThe Two Trillion Dollar Heist: The Perversion of Inversion
For decades now the social contract that existed between American workers and businesses has been unraveling at an alarming rate. There are many exceptions of excellent businesses that treat their...
View ArticleRepublicans Won't 'Go Libertarian' -- Here's Why
The time has come again for a perennial theme in politics: the idea that Republicans should "go libertarian." The questionable premise, forwarded most recently by Robert Draper and Emily Ekins, is that...
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