Congress Must Embrace Solutions That End Homelessness
According to a new report released just last week by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the number of long-term (what is known as chronic) homeless individuals has dropped again...
View ArticleWhat 2014 Taught Us
By Matt A. Barreto and Gary M. Segura Results from Latino Decisions' election eve poll are out. So are the media's national exit polls. And, of course, in almost every state and district we now have...
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Shining Like a Diamond
"I decided that my education was the most important thing that I could ever have, because without your education, you can't do much in this world. Some people find out the hard way. I did not want to...
View ArticleRocking the Wall -- The Berlin Concert that Changed the World
In 2089, when Germany looks back to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, historians and sociologists will have a different perspective on all the myriad of reasons that...
View ArticleMidterm Results: We All Lose
In this week's midterm elections, Republicans gained a majority in the Senate, expanded their grip on the House, and held on to a few governorships that were in jeopardy. House Republicans will now...
View ArticleWorst Advice Money Can Buy
Are overpaid and self-important political consultants driving the Democratic Party to ruin? Three days after the election debacle I nearly spit coffee up through my nose over this morning's New York...
View ArticleThe Training Game
The ongoing foreign policy debacle in Iraq and Syria has provided fodder for the Republican critics of President Obama who have blamed him for the collapse of the Iraqi armed forces in the face of...
View ArticleImmigration Actions: The Law of Unintended Consequences
The consensus among Americans is that "we are a nation of immigrants." However, when it comes to efforts to resolve our dysfunctional immigration system in the U.S. Congress, this consensus fails. What...
View Article'We Are One People' -- My Speech Before the Ruins of the Frauenkirche
The key moment for me during the process of German reunification was my visit to Dresden on Dec. 19. As I landed with my companions on the bumpy concrete runway of Dresden-Klotzsche Airport, it...
View ArticleThat Which Doesn't Kill Us...
Yes, the election hurt. We feared it would be bad -- and it was worse. By now we've all heard the Wednesday-morning quarterback analyses of how and why the Democratic Party gave up control of the...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: 25 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Is the World...
The world is at a tipping point. Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the ensuing rise of China and other emerging economies, fragile institutions -- the Asia Pacific Economic...
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Friday Talking Points -- A Democratic Economic Platform for Next Time
Not a fun week to be a Democrat, was it? President Obama called the 2010 midterms a "shellacking." He demurred on providing a label for the 2014 midterms, but others sprang into the void. The most...
View ArticleDems Did It to Themselves
Hey, Candidates: How'd that whole "Abandoning Obama" thing work out for you?
View ArticleAsk Not What Your Republic Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For Your Republic
Whenever I enter the capacious main entrance of the National Constitution Center, I take pause when I pass by this quote by Teddy Roosevelt that's etched in the wall: "The people themselves must be the...
View ArticleThe 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Many historians trace the seeds of the momentous events of November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down, as being planted back in August 1975 when 35 nations, including the United States,...
View ArticleGlobal Leadership for U.S. National Security
Commentators in recent years have been telling us that Americans are turning inward, showing little interest in affairs overseas. They cite polls indicating that, after over 10 years of wars, most...
View ArticleThe Issue Again Won't Be Loretta Lynch But President Obama
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch by any account has the highest legal and educational pedigree imaginable to succeed Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General. In fact, from the first moment that her...
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Jailed Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi Honored by PEN Canada
"The Kingdom's political system is rooted in Islam's traditions, which call for peace, justice, equality, consultation, and respect for the rights of the individual." So, proudly, claims the official...
View ArticleHaiyan, One Year Later: From Relief to Reconstruction
November 8 marks one year since the terrible day Typhoon Haiyan tore through the heart of the Philippines, leaving thousands of people dead and millions more homeless and jobless. It's a day of...
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