Corporate Dude Nation Discovers Fair Pay Isn't Karma
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just discovered karma.  No, it's not a negotiating strategy. How karma plays out goes like this: Nadella as a boss and a leader is tone-deaf to gender issues. Eventually,...
View ArticleShould Turkey Remain in NATO After the Fall of Kobani?
This article also appears in The New Republic. Kobani will fall. In a matter of hours. Or perhaps days. But the Syrian city will fall, a victim of the cynical reckoning of Turkish President Recep...
View Article2014 Women's Congress Defends Future Generations
Carolyn Raffensperger, an environmental lawyer, coined the phrase "ecological medicine" to describe the large role that the natural world plays in health and healing. She is executive director of the...
View ArticleSupreme Confusion or Fraudulent Collusion Over Voting Rights -- Ready for and...
When the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, it was with the explanation that "Congress could have updated the coverage formula at that time, but did not do so. Its failure to...
View ArticleThe October Surprise Will Be Last-Minute Billionaire Dollars
In recent weeks, political observers have speculated about the factors that will decide the 2014 elections. Some point to the improving economy with hopes that the falling unemployment rate will boost...
View ArticleCan the US Seize Would-Be Jihadis' Passports?
Can the U.S. government seize the passports of American citizens who it believes may travel abroad to join ISIS or other terror groups? Yep. The process is almost no-cost to the government, it's...
View ArticleWhat Are the Differences Between al-Qaeda and IS?
When the Taliban regime fell after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan and al-Qaeda was forced to flee towards the mountains of Pakistan, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri,...
View ArticleWATCH: Restoring an America That Has Lost Its Way
Previously published on BillMoyers.com. Three years ago, reporter and former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert took to the road and traveled across the United States to gather research for his new...
View ArticleThank You, Ben Affleck
Last week, Ben Affleck courageously took a stand on Bill Maher's show, Real Time. He questioned Maher and his guest panelist, Sam Harris, for making sweeping generalizations about the majority of...
View ArticleHillary Clinton is Right; Every Child must be Considered 'Too Small to Fail'
In a recent Washington Post article it was reported that the federal Healthy Start program was changing and becoming more of a competitive grant program. That would be totally counter-productive to the...
View ArticleEbola, Gay Marriage and Global Warming
No doubt Ebola is a serious global health issue, but to hear the right-wing media tell it, the one current US case of Ebola, unfortunately contracted by a health care worker, is tantamount to the...
View ArticleIs CNN America's Most Islamophobic Network?
If the answer to this question is "no," a case can still be made that the cable news network is on track to rival Fox News in promoting the worst Islamophobic stereotypes. The latest controversy...
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Obama's Untenable Position Regarding Silwan Arabs
60 houses built by the Ezrat Niddachim charitable organisation in Silwan, Jerusalem, for poor Yemenite Jews in the 1880s. An Arab resident of Silwan, East Jerusalem, was knifed to death, Thursday...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Death: A Mother Dies in Prison After Reporting Threats
Latandra Ellington, a 36-year old mother of four children, died in a Florida prison last week. Ellington had just seven months left to serve of her twenty-two month sentence for grand theft when she...
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Voter Suppression Is Un-American
It does seem a bit ridiculous, doesn't it? That we still have to fight for voting rights, fight against laws that seek to suppress the vote, laws that will have a disproportionate impact on those...
View ArticleKleptocracy Case Lifts a Veil on Rights Abuses
The US Justice Department's $30 million settlement deal with the eldest son of Equatorial Guinea's president, announced on October 10, marks the end of a decade-long US effort to pursue Teodoro...
View ArticleCan Republicans Scare Democrats Into Voting for Them
In the current election campaign, Republicans are organizing their message around a theme of fear. That is hardly surprising given scientific evidence that the brains of conservatives are more strongly...
View ArticleThe Path to Healing in the Middle East
If you've ever been in a fight with a loved one, you know that in the heat of the moment we can say and sometimes do quite damaging things, even to those we love most. Our bodies and brains are geared...
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Tsunami, Tidal Wave or Earthquake?: The Battle of the Midterm Metaphors
The night after the 2010 midterm election The Daily Show's Jon Stewart played a montage of metaphors used by pundits to describe the extent of the GOP's victory; among the most popular were "tidal...
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