Sunday Roundup
This week got off to a horrifying start as a 9-year-old girl accidentally shot a gun range instructor with a fully automatic Uzi. While the manager of the Bullets and Burgers range promised a "policy...
View ArticleCan You Wear a Tan Suit and Still Love Your Country?
We all know that loving your country is a serious matter, especially when you are the president. And we all know that wearing a dark color is taken to be far more serious than wearing a light one....
View ArticleCollege Must Be More Than Just a Classy Trade School
Yesterday many PBS stations carried this conversation I had on liberal education with Alexander Heffner of Open Mind. Here's a clip. The following is cross-posted from The Daily Beast. There is a...
View ArticleThere Can Be Dignity in the Face of Poverty
Two Harvard graduates, Bevis Longstreth and Timothey Wirth, were discussing that Harvard should divest itself of investments in fossil fuels. They argued that it is "repugnant to profit from...
View ArticleWars and Rumors of War
The United States faces the possibility of greater involvement in two wars: one with Russia and one with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, aka the Islamic State. One is a throwback to...
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A Labor Day Documentary: 'Brothers on the Line' Tells the Story of the...
Ask most Americans to name the most influential siblings in our nation's history and they'll probably think about politics (the Kennedy and Bush brothers), sports (the DiMaggio brothers and the...
View ArticleHillary Got It Right on Ferguson and Race
Hillary Clinton was pilloried and battered for days on end for not uttering a peep about the Michael Brown slaying, the Ferguson disorders, and most importantly race. Clinton took heat on this for the...
View ArticleLabor Day: The Beginning of a Breakthrough
This Labor Day, working families do not have much to celebrate when it comes to wages and job security. But we can celebrate the fact that the deteriorating conditions of work are finally breaking...
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Why I Hope This Is My Last Arrest at the White House
Photo: Church World Service Last week, I was arrested with more than 130 other advocates outside the White House. This is not the first time I have been arrested in an act of civil disobedience in...
View ArticleMr. President, It's Your Time
On June 30th, I sat across the table from President Obama along with my friend and colleague Mary Kay Henry and a number of other ardent immigration reform advocates. Before I addressed the president,...
View ArticleOnly These Three Steps Will Enable NATO to Stand Up to Putin
Admiral James G. Stavridis & Professor Julian Lindley-French The Atlantic Alliance must create a 21st century NATO Future Force if NATO is to remain a strategic military hub. This week NATO leaders...
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Reflections on Justice After Ferguson, MO: When Will Youth of Color Receive...
It's been several weeks since Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson. The investigation and grand jury proceedings continue as community members in Ferguson, MO and supporters around the...
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For Natives in 2014, the Struggle Continues
"Kill the Indian... save the man." -Army Capt. Richard H. Pratt, founder Carlisle Indian School, in a speech given in 1892 "I would send a troop of United States soldiers, not to seize them [the...
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Is Visa Waiver Program a Pipeline for Terrorism?
With input from Coleen Rowley Let's suggest that the United States has a gaping hole in its Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) monitoring, and it is not on our...
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#HealSTL: A Movement to Fix the Wrongs That Have Plagued Ferguson
The killing of teenager Michael Brown has galvanized an entire nation and sparked a discussion on race relations and policing that has long been over due. This past weekend, I traveled to Ferguson with...
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A New, Senseless Cold War Is Now Inevitable
MOSCOW -- Turning points in history are rarely recognized as such by contemporaries. Even while following the news and sensing that something has gone wrong, people go about their lives in the usual...
View ArticleDREAM Activists, Mobile Tech Key to AZ Primary Win
It has already been a wild primary election season with several big upsets rocking the political establishment. Add a hotly contested Arizona Democratic primary to that list, where young upstart Ruben...
View ArticleDire Data: When Voters Begin to Act Like Politicians
Politicians like data. But trends are a different story -- harder to confuse and more difficult to misapply, trends can spell out dire predictions for even the most data-toting politicians. And today's...
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Egypt's Transitional Injustice
Yara Sallam, the transitional justice officer at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, was arrested on June 21 a block away from a Cairo protest march against a draconian law that effectively...
View ArticleA King's Warning and a Reminder
The recent internationally publicized beheading of American journalist James Foley, by a supposed British citizen and member of the Islamic State, formerly known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...
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