FCC Bests Prison Telephone Industry Just in Time for Valentine's Day
The federal government is not known for being particularly romantic, but this Valentine's Day thousands of families have an unusual entity to be thankful for: The Federal Communications Commission....
View ArticleWhy We Entered the ACLU's 'My Big, Gay, (Il)legal Wedding' Contest
Lindsey and I met three years ago through a mutual friend. While it wasn't exactly love at first sight, there was an instant connection. We talked daily and saw each other several times a week, until...
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Will Obama Slip Obamacare Mandate Deadline One Month?
The official numbers are in for January, showing that Obamacare signups beat the monthly projection for the first time. This is good news for the White House, as is the new overall signup total of 3.3...
View ArticleThe Brides of Allah: The Terror Threat of Black-Widow Suicide Bombers to the...
Russian security officials have worked hard to make the 2014 Winter Olympics safe. The Russians have deployed twice as many security personnel as the British did in the London Olympics. Foreign guests...
View ArticleWill the Curtain Close on the American Revolution?
Benjamin Rush, one of America's Founders, famously wrote, "The American war is over but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of this...
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What Would Vladimir Putin Do?
Photo courtesy of Ray Keilman The world is now descending on the Black Sea resort town of Sochi for what could be described as an every-two-year blitz of sports diplomacy -- 18 days of international...
View ArticleProbe Rep. Petri for Pentagon Contractor Conflict of Interest
It seems like it was only just the other day -- actually, it was September -- that administration officials referred to the right-wing foreign policy lobby group AIPAC as "the 800-pound gorilla in the...
View ArticleD.C. Statehood Bill Tests Rand Paul's Commitment to Local Rule
This week at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) shared a stage with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to pay tribute to a rare, bipartisan cause: a federal expansion of...
View ArticleHoward's Daily: The Flaw of Regulatory Perfection
There's a wide chasm between those who write regulations and the humans expected to abide by them. Real people don't have the capacity or time to understand, much less comply with, scores of...
View ArticleMarijuana, Human Rights and the US Image
One of the most serious and widespread human nights issues in the US is our prison system, in which more people per capita are incarcerated than any other country in the world where comparable records...
View ArticleWhy I Support the Common Core State Standards
No one at my school expected me to attend college, much less lead the nation's largest Hispanic Christian organization. I grew up attending public school in Pennsylvania, an eager student with a knack...
View ArticleBeyond Fascism and Austerity: Why the Rise of the Radical Right in Hungary...
"Germany was able to accomplish with the EU what it could not accomplish with two world wars" -- Hungarian citizen The rise of the radical right in Western European countries, particularly in France...
View ArticleThe Kansas 'Religious Freedom' Bill Is Unbiblical
There are few things that make me angrier than when Christians try to twist the Scriptures for their own comfort or gain. As a life-long believer who has read the Bible cover-to-cover more than once, I...
View ArticleKress Now Lobbying for Pre-K... Testing
Sandy Kress, the controversial testing lobbyist, is leading a new raid on our school taxes. This month he registered to lobby for Amplify, the company that wants to replace textbooks with tablet...
View ArticleWhy Abortion Isn't Just About Abortion
Jessica Valenti, feminist writer and Nation contributor, noticed something that should irritate and concern everyone who cares about the progress of women in America: When it comes to high-minded...
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Rea Carey, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,...
This week I talked with Rea Carey, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, about the 26th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change, which recently took place in...
View ArticleChomsky: Putting the Eco Back in Economy
The prefix "eco" connotes the natural system. Ecology is defined as the study of the relationships between living things and the resources they need for survival. The suffix, "-nomy," means...
View ArticleTavis Smiley Poses 10 Questions About Obama White House Initiative For Young...
On his public radio program, Tavis Smiley poses 10 important questions that need to be addressed in assessing the potential impacts of the "My Brother's Keeper" initiative soon to be announced by the...
View ArticleFighting Injustice With Love
On Valentine's Day, job seekers and organizers will deliver candy and flowers to local and state officials, contractors associations and other stakeholders with the goal of changing federal regulations...
View ArticleThey've Done Their Time, Now Let Them Vote
On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., urged states to repeal laws that prohibit people who were formerly incarcerated from voting, a move that would restore the right to vote to millions....
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