Down to the Haywire in the Badger State
The unthinkable has happened in Wisconsin. Just seven weeks before the midterm elections, a panel of Seventh Circuit judges has restored the state's strict voter ID law, which had been blocked by the...
View ArticleRubio for President?
Virtually every politician is an opportunist, but Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio has to be at the head of the crowd. In his apparent desperation to win his party's 2016 presidential nomination,...
View ArticleA Real Plutocracy Prevention Act
Senator Bernie Sanders Act Would Bolster Estate Tax and Reduce Inequality French economist Thomas Piketty made a sensation with his bestselling book about inequality, Capital In The Twenty-First...
View ArticleDon't Count Out the Down Ballot
There's no question -- the midterm elections this fall are consequential. In Washington, they will determine not only whether Democrats retain control of the Senate, but also whether our nation has a...
View ArticleNeither Rain, Nor Flood, Nor Drought Can Stop the Climate Change Deniers
Democrat or Republican, farmer or urban dweller -- no one can deny that California is facing one of its worst droughts in recorded history. Yet, like most issues today in our dysfunctional Congress,...
View ArticleWhy Oklahoma Rep. John Bennett's Fear Mongering Makes Us Less Safe
Americans have enough enemies without creating imaginary ones. But that is what Oklahoma Rep. John Bennett is doing by fear mongering against the whole American Muslim community. Bennett is creating...
View ArticleWe Must Recover America's Hopeful Spirit
The modern United States is less hopeful than ever. We live in a time when cynicism about government is at an all-time high, when lack of trust in our most sacred institutions is the norm rather than...
View ArticleWhat Voting Day Is Like for the Scottish Referendum
One simple question deserves one simple answer. Should Scotland be an independent country? With a miniature sharpened pencil -- the kind you're given at a miniature golf course -- I could put a big "X"...
View ArticleHow Does This End?
America is about to start yet ANOTHER war to stop terrorism. But we've been invading, bombing, cruise-missiling, and droning countries for decades, and terrorism hasn't gone away. Congress and the...
View ArticleRaising the Minimum Wage
This year Democrats face a grueling election challenge -- holding on to the Senate. In the face of relentless Republican obstructionism, the American public has turned against a do-nothing Congress,...
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A Day in the Life of Pope Francis, Who Lives Behind This Gas Station
"Following Francis" is a monthly blog on the latest happenings of Pope Francis. It is prepared exclusively for The WorldPost by Sébastien Maillard, Vatican Correspondent for La Croix, Rome ROME --...
View ArticleThe Economic Recovery in Black, White, and Brown
As I recently observed, reading recent financial reports could reasonably lead you to believe that the financial crisis is over and that housing markets have rebounded. While that's true for some...
View ArticleJoe Biden: Shakespearean Wordsmith
Who knew that Joe Biden had ever studied Shakespeare? When the vice president spoke at the Legal Services Corp. in Washington on Tuesday, he criticized "Shylocks who took advantage" of servicemen and...
View ArticleThe Cause of Homosexuality Is Irrelevant
My blog post "The Same-Sex Marriage 'Debate' Is Based Upon Ignorance and Inaccurate Information" was published Sept. 11, 2014. The response to that blog post, both positive and negative, has far...
View ArticleRice and Peterson: A Double Standard for Violence
The Adrian Peterson and Ray Rice stories starkly reveal an inherent contradiction about family violence and the treatment of our children. Ray Rice was arrested for hitting his girlfriend -- he...
View ArticleTo Protect Our Kids, We Must Extend the Children's Health Insurance Program
From the beginning of my career in public service, I've always cared deeply about helping our children. When I arrived in Emmons, West Virginia, as a VISTA worker, there were countless children in the...
View ArticleDoes the Islamic State (aka ISIS and ISIL) Pose a Threat to America?
As the Obama administrations engages in an awkward and uncertain recalibration of its policy towards the Middle East since of the emergence of the caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi -- the Islamic State...
View ArticleDeaths in Peru Show the Need to Protect Land Rights of Local Communities
Earlier this month, indigenous activist Edwin Chota and three Asháninka community leaders were murdered as they tried to stop illegal logging in the Peruvian Amazon. While the killers have not yet been...
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The High Moral and Economic Cost of Child Poverty in America
Just released U.S. Census Bureau data reveal 45.3 million people were poor in America in 2013. One in three of those who are poor is a child. Children remain our poorest age group and children of color...
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Emancipating Freedom
Co-authored by Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier As you make the rounds of the exhibition Tides of Freedom you cannot miss James Forten's bold flourish of a signature on this handwritten sales receipt. It was...
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