How to keep your federal workers from looking elsewhere
The federal workforce is shrinking, as more and more employees leave government and the rate of hiring declines. Unfortunately, this also comes at a time when the demands upon government are growing....
View ArticleBuilding an emergency health response
Dr. Nicole Lurie is the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where she leads federal efforts in preventing and responding to the...
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GOP Defrauds Voters
The GOP is working desperately to deny the right to vote to citizens it doesn’t like. You know, poor people, black people, Hispanic people, old people, female people, especially people it believes are...
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Will Occupy End Up Having a Bigger Impact Than the Tea Party on Real People's...
To casual consumers of the mainstream media, that question might well seem absurd. On the other hand, theater of the absurd is not a bad description of much of the coverage provided those consumers by...
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Is There an American Dream for Black Children?
Recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, have once again made the nation consider the durability of racial injustice as a defining factor of the American experience. Black children go to increasingly...
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Prosecutors Object to War on Weed
The prosecution objects. That's one way to put it, at any rate. Two news stories from the Pacific Northwest today pose an interesting question: Are prosecutors beginning to get fed up with the War On...
View ArticleClimate Change Will Be the Number One Issue in the 2034 Midterm Elections
On the day after the Sept. 23 UN Climate Change Summit in New York, sunset will bring the High Holidays to Jews around the world. On that night, I wonder whether the words of the Unetanneh Tokef, the...
View Article100 Zephyrs: Why the Left Must Challenge Corporate Democrats
Writing in Real Clear Politics, my Campaign for America's Future colleague Bill Scher dismisses Zephyr Teachout's call for progressive primary challenges against conservative Democrats. Scher argues...
View ArticleThe Mysteries of Inequality Are Only Mysterious to Elites
Developing explanations for the growth in inequality over the last three decades has been a huge growth industry in economics and policy circles. Many economists have made their careers with a novel...
View ArticleVote or... Just Vote
It is National Voter Registration Day on September 23, an entire 24 hours dedicated to getting unregistered voters to fill out that voter registration form and commit to voting in this upcoming midterm...
View ArticleTurkish Leader Erdogan's Misstep in NYC
The president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has a problem. Through his battles at home in recent years to ward off criminal investigations of his administration, his insistence on dismissing...
View ArticleSacking Another Myth: The NFL and Goodell
Some myths and legends represent deeper truths about our lives and the world in a way that brings us closer to each other and to where we all want to go; other myths take us further from the truth and...
View ArticleEvery Week Is Banned Books Week For Chicanos
Every week is banned books week for Chicanos. In Arizona, two Chicana high school students, Maya Arce and Korina Lopez, await word of when their case against Arizona HB 2281 goes up before the 9th...
View ArticleTexas Court OKs "Up Skirts": WTF?!
This week, the Texas Court of Appeals made a ruling that is both outrageous and grotesque... and for the first time in recorded history, it has nothing to do with either abortion or the death penalty....
View ArticleContainment or Eradication: What Is the United State's True Plan in Syria?
In September 2013, the United States stood on the brink of an armed intervention in Syria following the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons outside Damascus. One year later, U.S. military...
View ArticleThe crisis, alibi of the weak, energy of the strong
When I hear a former President of the French Republic dare say, and have his lieutenants explain away, that only a major economic crisis made it impossible for him to achieve the reforms he was...
View ArticleThe Next Climate Bomb Is About to Explode in Quebec
Most of us have heard of the Alberta oil sands climate bomb. Canada's fastest-growing source of climate pollution is also one of the few places in the world where the fate of our planet's climate is...
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Climate Action -- Who Is Stopping Us?
The world has changed since our leaders discussed climate change in 2009. It has become even more evident; ravaging crops in Africa, melting ice in the Arctic, drowning the Philippines and drying-up...
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Clinton v. Warren: A Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party in NYC This...
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Elizabeth Warren should be on cloud nine. In a speech on Friday the 'other woman' of Democratic politics, Hillary Clinton, made reference to Warren's...
View ArticleIt's Time for Schools to Ban Redskins Merchandise
How should a teacher react if a student arrives to class wearing a t-shirt that shouts a repugnant racial slur in large, all capital letters across the chest? The answer ought to be clear. Such attire...
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