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The Emotional Toll of Growing Up Black in America
Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, a brilliant, Black Ohio State University professor, recently opened the Educational Testing Service and Children’s Defense Fund co-sponsored symposium on Advancing Success for...
View ArticleWendy Davis' Opponent Is Afraid of Something. Very Afraid.
What's got the opponent of Wendy Davis so nervous? The Texas candidates for governor, Davis and Greg Abbott, had agreed to participate in a debate in Dallas next month, broadcast on the ABC affiliate....
View ArticleCongress Needs to Rein in the Security State the Way We Have in Maine
When I became executive director of the ACLU of Maine in 2005, national security hawks controlled Washington, D.C., and the 9/11 attacks were still a very fresh memory around the country. The Patriot...
View ArticleGuns, Guns, Guns
Having been an outspoken critic of uncontrolled handgun distribution over the past 40 years and the way the Constitution has been twisted to justify reckless sales of deadly weapons, I am pleased to...
View ArticlePhilippines at a Crossroads: End of Aquino's Popularity?
A key lesson in politics, especially among developing countries, is that everything is relative: It is difficult to develop a stable metric for assessing the performance of any particular...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: Where in Hell Did ISIS Come From?
What happens when the strategic fatigue of the West meets an energetic jihadist surge aimed at setting up a Syriaq caliphate? That is the question The WorldPost asked our contributors to address this...
View Article9 Years After Hurricane Katrina: New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and Recovery
The group of citizens gathered today alongside the levee which runs the length of the Industrial Canal, in the Lower Ninth Ward -- the hardest hit, the place where so many lost their lives. The names...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Doomed (Unless They Make the Minimum Wage the #1 November...
If you were the Democrats and you were looking for a good vote-getting midterm election issue, what criteria would you use? How about an issue with 70-80 percent support in polls? How about one that is...
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Please Feel Free to Shut Up About Obama's Tan Suit
On Thursday, President Obama held a press conference in which he discussed the economy as well as two of the most critical foreign policy issues in the world: the ISIS threat and the situation in...
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Friday Talking Points -- The Gender Gap
President Obama gave a press conference recently, and -- since it is still the political Silly Season -- got a lot of media attention. For what he was wearing. No, seriously. Washington was all...
View ArticlePolice Tactics Again Under the Spotlight in Racially Charged Demonstrations:...
The events in Ferguson demonstrate once again the unsurprising results of a recent empirical study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, that found that "[p]olice tactics often...
View ArticleThis Labor Day Let's Rethink the Texas Miracle
Drive around the Lone Star State and signs of the "Texas Miracle" are hard to miss. Construction cranes and scaffolding remind us that the Texas economy is growing faster than that of almost any other...
View ArticleIf You Want to See Inequality in the U.S. at Its Worst, Visit an Impound Lot
For millions of Americans a towed car can lead to a crippling spiral of stress, debt, joblessness, illness and, in many cases, incarceration. On a recent San Francisco afternoon, I returned to where...
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ISIS: The Psychology of Our Fears
Across the world, various news sources are reporting on the terrors of ISIS. We know what they superficially desire: a Caliphate, or religious state, that stretches across the Arabian Peninsula. We...
View ArticleIllinois Libertarians Lodge Criminal Complaints Over Armed Intimidation
The Libertarian Party of Illinois lodged complaints on Thursday with both the Office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Office of Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez over...
View ArticleA Meditation on Violent Language: Professor's Impassioned Tweets vs The...
The current uproar about the firing of Prof. Steven Salaita by the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana revolves around the posting of objectionable tweets. The case involves the extent...
View ArticleWill Israel Attack Iran's Nuclear Installation?
Footage of an allegedly unmanned Israeli aerial drone was broadcasted on Iran's state media agency Tasnim this week. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force claims that it has...
View ArticleIn Praise of Mark Krikorian's Honesty: Let the Child Migrants Die
Even as political leaders debate whom to blame for the surge of child migrants at the border, most agree on one goal: deporting the children as quickly as possible. Yet few advocates of their speedy...
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Stylin' with Pete King or How to Dress for a World in Crisis
You know that point in a fight when you've gotten through all the big, meaty stuff and you're exhausted but still so pissed off you end up going all stupid with something like: "Yeah, well... your......
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