Howard's Daily: Law Should Support Moral Choices
Law is supposed to support a free society. Instead, increasingly, "following the rules" prevents people from doing what's right. This week a lifelong employee of the Washington, DC parks department,...
View ArticleDear Mr. President: Support Better Buildings Through Executive Action
Tuesday night, I was inspired watching President Obama outline a plan to "make this a year of action" and calling on all of us during his State of the Union to do everything we can to invest in a...
View ArticleThe State of the Direct Care Worker
Present State: Direct Care Work = Low Wages and Lack of Opportunity Everyone seems to agree, as the President emphasized several times in his state of the Union address, that people who work full-time...
View ArticleApparently I Am Just Like a White Supremacist, and I Am Very Thankful to...
Several people have given me plausible, sensible, cogent explanations of why the thought of legalizing same-sex marriage drives its foes to the most breathtaking contortions of logic. In an earlier...
View ArticleYes, #ScarJo, There's a Line Between Israel and Palestine
Last June, the Israeli anti-occupation group All That's Left marked the anniversary of Israel's military occupation of the West Bank by "re-painting the Green Line" on the international border between...
View ArticleFrom West Virginia to Wall Street, Greed Shows the Need for Tough, Smart...
The news out of West Virginia in recent weeks is simply foul. Just last week we learned that a second dangerous chemical had entered the water supply. What's even more galling is that the company...
View ArticleStop Talking and Start Acting on Mental Health
I just finished watching the 60 Minutes and CNN interviews of Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds (D-VA) and the CNN interview of Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-FL). All the right questions were asked...
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America Deserves a Raise
It's time to give America a raise. That was one of the basic, core messages in President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night. He called on Congress to do what 21 states and the District of...
View ArticleNew Sheriff in Town -- For Now
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca stepped down today. In so doing, he kept his word. He is now part of the department's past and not its future. He leaves behind a scandal-ridden department that is...
View ArticleTaking Back North Carolina
It has been a painful year for the people of North Carolina and for our state's reputation. In just one year, the Tea Party controlling Raleigh has slashed education funding, made it harder to register...
View ArticleThings Are Going Great
If we look back at, say, the last 100 years or so, we might be tempted to declare that all the really important "social" issues before us have demonstrably improved. While that's an ambitious and...
View ArticleChristian Companies Want to Own Your Body
As you're likely aware, some 80 Christian groups and Christian-owned businesses now have wending through the court system lawsuits against the Obama administration, whereby they are seeking to block...
View ArticleHolocaust: Historical Revisionism and Trivialization
As I write this commentary on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am almost speechless, which, as anyone who knows me could tell you, is rare. I am upset and, quite frankly, outraged, not...
View ArticleIt's About Time, and Long Overdue
"I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth and not ruined by it." -- Pope Francis message to the World Economic Forum Meeting 2014 The World Economic Forum, a global elite annual gathering...
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Apprenticeship: Pathway to Opportunity
In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for "more apprenticeships that set a young worker on an upward trajectory for life." I couldn't agree more, because I've seen firsthand the...
View ArticleSpying Can Be Fun
He that's secure is not safe." -Benjamin Franklin In the face of the most recent revelations about the relationship of the NSA to many of our smartphone apps that neither we nor the apps knew we had,...
View ArticleIt's All About History
For the three key nations of East Asia to move forward, Japan must confront its modern history. The American reaction to the escalating tension in East Asia has been a mix of befuddlement and...
View ArticleWomen Presidents Outperform Their Male Counterparts in Complex Economies
This post was co-authored with Susan Perkins, Assistant Professor of International Business and Markets at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and Katherine Phillips, the Paul...
View ArticleA Reality Check on Executive Orders and the 'Dictator Obama' Myth
The congressional Republicans and the conservative entertainment complex has lost its collective shpadoinkle over President Obama's slate of new executive orders, including a forthcoming order to raise...
View ArticleU.S. Assassination Program in Colombia & Why We Are Learning of This Now
On December 21, 2013, The Washington Post published a story entitled, "Covert action Colombia," about the intimate and critical role of the CIA and the NSA in helping to assassinate "at least two...
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