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Mr. President, Here's How to Help Ferguson Today: Give Youth Access to...
In California, leaders of North Bay Organizing Project honored the 49th anniversary of regulations governing hiring on federal construction and other contracts by calling for changes that would help...
View ArticleEric Holder: The Reason Robert Rubin Isn't Behind Bars
The big news item in Washington last week was Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to resign. Undoubtedly there are positives to Holder's tenure as attorney general, but one really big minus is his...
View ArticleHomer Describing Big Oil: "Lung-Choking, Ocean-Poisoning, Species-Sickening...
This post is a reprint of a speech to fiduciaries on fossil fuel divestment at the Boston Carbon Risk Forum, Harvard Law School, September 29, 2014 Preface In 2010, at Cancun, nations of the world set...
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Yes, Somebody's Boots on the Ground Will Be Needed
On Sunday, September 28, President Barack Obama looked straight into the eyes of 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft during his interview at the White House and uttered something that most Americans...
View ArticlePolitical Values Are Dividing Us Over Basic Facts, Not Just Policy Choices
You can't open a newspaper -- or pull up The Huffington Post -- these days without encountering evidence of our country's political disagreement. Everything from the best policy for solving a problem...
View ArticleWhy the Big Tribal 'Payout' Is Only a Start
The complex legal history of the federal government's connection to Native American tribes was on display in separate events last week, neither shining a positive light on this continuum of American...
View ArticleLessons the U.S. Can Learn From Cuba and the Ebola Crisis
A story I read on Cuba's sending 300 additional medical personnel to Africa to help with the Ebola epidemic made a great impression on me. Published in Telesur English, the piece read, in pertinent...
View ArticleSenator Alexander Needs to Read the NLRA
Sen. ​Lamar Alexander has become the newest worst expert on U.S. labor law. Instead of upholding the law as required by his oath of office, he wants to gut it while claiming to reform it. For 80 years,...
View ArticleThe Nation's Police Have a Sex-Discrimination Problem
The death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson, Missouri police officer last month prompted the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into Ferguson's policing practices....
View ArticleThe Retirement Crisis Is Real
The retirement crisis is anything but imaginary. In a recent working paper, we find that only 44 percent of workers in the United States have access to a retirement plan at work. Except for workers...
View ArticleEven Gladiators Would've Changed the Redskins Name
The Daily Show's bit on the meeting of die-hard Redskins fans with Native Americans who oppose the use of the epithet as a football team's name was disappointingly tame. Where were the high emotions,...
View ArticlePalestinian Trying to Rebuild Progressive Women Radio
When I met Islam Barbar in a Gaza restaurant in 2012 while on a human rights mission, I was impressed with her cheerful demeanor but taken aback by the hopelessness that she felt. Although Barbar was...
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#4 Not Our Finest Hour: Why Is Liberal America Falling So Far Short?
Summary: We in Liberal America are now embattled. America has been in kindred battles before, and on those occasions to which we look to see our finest American ideals expressed and embodied, great...
View ArticleWill the Council on Foundations Be a Change Agent or Just a Trade Group?
The Council on Foundations, the most prominent trade association in the grant-making world, has been in the doldrums for a long time, beset by weak boards, declining membership, a lack of clear values...
View ArticleSex Education, 21st Century Style
Our society, correctly, values the importance of education and lifelong learning as a pathway to success and a happy life. Countless studies show that those who graduate college do better -- not only...
View ArticleIn Annual Statistics, Most Colleges Claim Zero Reported Sex Offenses
It would be an insult to anyone possessing the tiniest flicker of intelligence to suggest that, in a 12-month period on a college campus, no student had reported to any campus employee that he or she...
View ArticleWhy an Unequal Planet Can Never Be Green
What is it going to take to save the planet from environmental devastation? Sheer people power? We certainly saw that on the eve of last week's UN Climate Summit in New York. Some 400,000 marchers...
View ArticleThe Age of American Impatience: Why It's a Dangerous Syndrome
"Wrap Rage" is a new phenomenon. It has nothing to do with music, as in rap music. It has nothing to do with "road rage," which is quite common on our byways and highways. "Wrap Rage" is...
View ArticleObama's ISIS Strategy Resembles Benghazi
Recently President Barack Obama was on CBS' 60 Minutes discussing the problems the U.S. has had in dealing with the Islamic extremist organization, ISIS. During the interview there was a candid moment...
View ArticleObama Is Right to Ignore Saber Rattlers on ISIS
John McCain and some of the louder pro-war voices in Congress have been criticizing the president for ruling out putting American boots on the ground in the battle against ISIS. These people want to...
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