Sexual Surveillance of Women is a Consequence of Conservative Norms, Not...
It is a powerful and sad truth that the only place men are subjected to the levels of surveillance and sexual assault that women live with is in prison. A casually dismissed, and now camera-enabled,...
View ArticleEarning Our Children's Trust
Our Constitution was established to "promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." And yet, our government persists with a business-as-usual path,...
View ArticleWithout Freedom There Is No Free Trade
Trade agreements are often promoted as a means to keep prices down and employment up. The matter, as one might expect, is not so straightforward especially when political freedom is not part of the...
View ArticleTexas Wants to Kill This Mentally Ill Man
Wearing a cowboy costume and a purple bandana, Scott Panetti defended himself at his capital trial in Texas without counsel, where he tried to call the Pope, J.F.K, and Jesus Christ to the witness...
View ArticlePrinceton's Faculty Petition to Divest from Israeli Occupation
On November 5, Princeton University's student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, published an advert entitled "An Invitation to the Tenured Faculty at Princeton." The invitation was for tenured faculty...
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Why Kay Hagan Lost In North Carolina
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- When the smoke cleared, the most expensive contest of 2014 had become the costliest Senate race in U.S. history. More than $111 million was spent by both sides in the North...
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A Lesson in Politics, Sports and Sweet Potatoes
As a proud North Carolina liberal with a degree from the University of North Carolina, last week wasn't pleasant. I watched our Democratic senator loose to a Republican and witnessed my alma mater...
View ArticleAn Encore
It was déjà vue all over again. -- attributed to Yogi Berra That was then; this is now. Thank goodness. It would be a pity if history were to repeat itself. It would suggest we weren't smart enough to...
View ArticleBehind the Handshakes, Military Tensions Are Rising Between China and Its...
The president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino, became the second of two close American allies (after Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe) to shake hands with President Xi Jinping of China this week....
View ArticleMcConnell to Obama: You Have the Government You Have, Not the One You Wish...
According to The Huffington Post, incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is "very disturbed" by President Barack Obama's recent exercise of his executive powers, including the president's...
View ArticleOpen Letter Poem
A single fact to start: Nicholas Kristof (and others) have reported that more women were killed in the last 50 years just for being women than all of the men in all of the wars of the 20th century!...
View ArticleA Signal of Groundbreaking Progress
This week's joint announcement by President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping to reduce their nations' carbon emissions is a major step forward in the global effort to solve the climate...
View ArticleTo Young Liberals in Red States: Stay
As everyone else has pointed out, the 2014 mid-term election was a rough one for Democrats. Through a number of liberal reforms, such as expanding marijuana legalization, raising the minimum wage and...
View ArticleObama's Visit and Suu Kyi's Political Future
President Barack Obama arrived in Myanmar for a three-day visit on November 12. This is Obama's second trip to Myanmar in two years. His visit, in November 2012, was the first ever by a sitting U.S....
View ArticleDC Strikers Demand 'More Than the Minimum' for Federal Workers
Should our government be for good jobs with good wages and benefits -- the things most of We the People want in our lives? Or should it be for bad jobs, low wages, no benefits -- the very things that a...
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Sign a Contract, Lose Your Rights
Deep within the contract I signed for a recent $699 purchase were these words: Arbitration Agreement: Should any dispute arise in regards to this product, I/we agree to settlement by arbitration....
View ArticleFrom Michael Stewart to Michael Brown: A Reflection on #Ferguson October
Aboard Delta Airlines Flight 5213 bound from Durham to St. Louis, the past and present collided. Anticipating my destination, I tweeted, "On my way to #FergusonOctober, with Michael Stewart on my mind....
View ArticleChange is Possible!
Election eve 2014 made evident early and forcefully that American public opinion is hard to square with reason and logic. After growing demands from the grassroots over recent years for bipartisan...
View ArticleHow China Made Its Climate Change Decision, and Why It Will Stick
SYDNEY -- The consensus amongst the political elite in China since the 11th Five Year Programme issued in 2006 has been that climate change is a reality, and that its fiercest impact will fall on their...
View ArticleThe United States' Ambiguous Strategy for Dealing With ISIS
What is one to make of the recent decision by the White House to send an additional 1,500 military advisors to Iraq? The answer depends on whom you ask. What I find perplexing is how the White House...
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