Is 2014 the Transatlantic Trade Deal's 'Make-or-Break' Year?
Arguably the most important economic development last year was the announcement of a new push toward a trade deal between the United States and the EU. Almost a year after President Barack Obama...
View ArticleThe New Debate About Poverty
This week, the United States marked 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson declared War on Poverty. Many politicians and media are asking whether past efforts to reduce poverty have been successful....
View ArticleWhy Is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Releasing Politically-charged Data...
When I was asked yesterday by POLITICO to comment on a press release from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation celebrating the food industry's alleged reduction in calories, I thought, Oh, those data...
View ArticleCybersecurity Industry Interview With Marsh's Matt McCabe: Part Two
As we kick off 2014, I am starting the New Year with an interview series, which will provide an overview of the cybersecurity industry. I spoke with Marsh's Senior Vice President of Network Security...
View ArticleWake Up Call For New York's Gov. Cuomo
In a recent New York state public forum about the Common Core with Education Commissioner John King and state Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch in Manhattan, the room was rife with rancor, as it...
View ArticleTreat Children as Children
“Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.” -- Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice...
View ArticleStudies Find That Successful People Tend To Be Bad
On 29 July 2010, Britain's Economist headlined "Wealth, Poverty and Compassion: The Rich Are Different from You and Me; They Are More Selfish," and summarized a study, to be published in the November...
View Article'Wake Me Up' Video: Reflections from 2013
Chances are you've heard "Wake Me Up." It was a hit song worldwide last year by Aloe Blacc and remixed by Avicii. But have you checked out the emotionally powerful acoustic version of the music video?...
View ArticleThe Patriotic American
I am, quite possibly, the most "American" concoction of a human in the country. I am, at my very core, strictly American. The cultural influences that have shaped me include life in a retired military...
View ArticleWhy it Is Urgent to Extend Jobless Benefits
The most distressing element of last week's jobs report was not the small number of jobs added in December, but the decrease in the participation rate of workers from 63.6 percent at the beginning of...
View ArticleCollateral Damage at the Port Authority
The strange case of Governor Chris Christie and the George Washington Bridge may reveal just how far the mighty have fallen. I don't mean the governor and his vaunted political operation. Rather, a...
View ArticleSenator Kelly Ayotte Proposes Tax Hike Targeting 4 Million Low-Income Latino...
Looks like Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) is shining her Tea Party shoes to prepare for a possible shot at the 2016 GOP vice presidential nomination. What else would explain her explosive, morally dubious...
View ArticleSunday Roundup
This week, America finally turned its attention to the urgent problem of its bridges -- or at least one bridge. As a media storm erupted over a traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge,...
View ArticleLeadership and the Apology
National political figures have been doing a lot of apologizing recently. In October, President Obama apologized for the disastrous roll-out of the healthcare.gov website. Just recently, New Jersey...
View Article5 Reasons Chris Christie Will Still Be the Republican Nominee in 2016
Astonishingly, people are already writing off Chris Christie as the Republican presidential nominee in 2016, treating him as irrevocably damaged goods. That's not only wildly unrealistic, it's naive....
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Handouts Aren't Enough
Conservatives, for the first time in quite a while, are beginning to take the issue of poverty seriously. Tea Party figures like Marco Rubio and Mike Lee have given thoughtful speeches on income...
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Chris Christie 2016?
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View ArticleMark Warner's DC Centrism: Hurting the Middle Class
The organization I chair, American Family Voices, sponsors Lauren Windsor's The Undercurrent show on The Young Turks network in part because of reports like this one on the Warner-Corker legislation...
View ArticleAll the Focus on Edward Snowden Is Misplaced
All of the focus on Edward Snowden and clemency, pardon, whistle blower status or jail misses the real point. Namely, the NSA is conducting what amounts to illegal surveillance on collection of...
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