For Yale in Singapore, It's Deja-vu All Over Again
Once again, the liberal-arts college in Singapore to which Yale has given its name, prestige, energy, and talent finds itself dancing awkwardly with the government over a right that liberal education...
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Colorado Students Are Right: Your History Is Un-American
I've been paying close attention to the events in Colorado in which students and faculty members of Jefferson County high schools have been protesting the formation of a curriculum review committee...
View ArticleWhat Do Democrats Want?
During the 2014 midterm elections Republicans have waged a negative "slash and burn" campaign, attacking President Obama and Democrats in general. The GOP strategy is to fire up their base, bamboozle a...
View ArticleContinuity of Government 50 Years after S.J. Res. 139
Fifty years ago, on September 28 and 29, 1964, the Senate unanimously approved S.J. Res. 139, the outline for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which provided procedures to fill a vice-presidential vacancy...
View ArticleCongressman Urges Military Generals to Publicly Resign in Protest of Obama's...
Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado says he and others have met with generals behind the scenes and urged them to resign if they disagree with the White House's military policy in the Middle...
View ArticleArresting Developments: Marijuana Arrests on the Rise in 17 States
Despite marijuana's legalization in Colorado and Washington, forthcoming ballot measures in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, D.C., and rising support in the polls, marijuana's prohibition still remains...
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What the Media Doesn't Want you to Know about Money in Politics
It costs politicians more and more every year to get reelected. And that means they become more and more dependent on corporate dollars and wealthy donors to win a seat at the table. So far this year,...
View ArticleYou Can't Defeat Somebody With Nobody
Flashback, 2000: At a military checkpoint on the side of a road in Lesotho, an officer pointed an automatic weapon at me, and asked for $20. I took out my business card, I handed it to him, and I told...
View ArticleDecriminalizing School Discipline
I believe the purpose of public schools is to educate not exclude children and to help identify and meet child needs, not make children serve adult convenience, self interest, and systems. So huge...
View ArticlePosse Comitatus and the Fourth Amendment
Back in pre-Constitution America, the British army would burst into the homes and businesses of American colonists. The searches would often be destructive, and intended so. Some of the time the point...
View ArticleThe Three Million Manav March: Why Indian-Americans are Giving Prime Minister...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Washington and New York, where, in addition to meeting President Obama, he will receive a "rock star welcome" from nearly 20,000 Indian American...
View ArticleJailing Migrant Children Is Immoral and Un-American
As Americans, we cannot accept that our government is jailing child migrants. Last week I headed to Artesia, New Mexico, where I provided pro bono legal services to some of the 600 women and children...
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American Politics Are a Mess. Is This Why?
In a thought-provoking feature in this week's New York Times Magazine, Matt Bai recounts in (surprisingly gripping) detail the collapse of Gary Hart's presidential campaign and then pivots to make a...
View ArticleThe Needed Debate
After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait President George H.W. Bush vowed "This will not stand" and assembled plans and forces to expel him. He agreed that Congressional approval was required. But he did...
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Friday Talking Points -- Eric Holder's Record
We have to pre-empt the usual Friday Talking Points column this week, because when we started writing about Eric Holder in the awards section, it just kind of grew and grew as a subject until it...
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2014 Early Voting Underway
Fall has just begun and voters are already casting ballots in key states holding U.S. Senate races that will likely determine which party will be the Senate majority. So far, at least 18,000 people...
View ArticleLebanon: The Forgotten Front
While the world's attention has been focused on the combined efforts of Arab and U.S. forces attacking "Islamic State" (IS) positions in Iraq and Syria, there is unfolding in Lebanon, a third front in...
View ArticleExplaining the Middle East in Two Minutes!
Your favorite politician or pundit says there's an easy solution? This should help clarify things...
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The Radical Images of Lewis Hine, Documentary Photographer
Many great photographers -- including Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, Milton Rogovin, Margaret Bourke-White, and Dorothea Lange (the subject of a recent PBS documentary) -- have used the...
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