Two Crucial Issues for the Three Amigos Summit
When President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto meet at a summit in Mexico next week, the three North American leaders should tackle a...
View ArticleHow Post Offices Can Provide an Alternative to Payday Lending
Earlier this month, the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Postal Service proposed expanding their financial services to include banking transactions, including small dollar loans....
View ArticleAdoption: Child Welfare or Business?
What would have happened if our kids had stayed with their original families? As the parent of two adopted children who are in touch with their first mothers and fathers, a parent who sees how their...
View ArticleTalking Leadership With Georgetown's President
John J. DeGioia became president of Georgetown University in 2001 after holding a variety of senior administrative positions at the institution, including senior vice president and dean of student...
View ArticlePushing the Positive, Nay-Saying the Negative
Time appears to be running out on Obama's long-term plan for progressive change. So it's no surprise, according to polls, that many Americans are pretty jaded about "hope and change," his original...
View ArticleOn Zombies and Cyber Attacks
During the winter of 2013-14, amidst the school delays and extreme weather conditions in much of the United States, the federal Emergency Alert System issued a warning, but perhaps not the one people...
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Putin, Sochi and the New Russia
For the past three years I've been involved with a Russia-based international organization, World Without Nazism, determined to call attention to resurgent Nazi movements, especially in Europe. It's...
View ArticleHow to make government a more excellent, more innovative place to work
Robert Sutton is a professor of management at Stanford University, an organizational researcher and author of numerous management books. On Leadership spoke with Sutton about his newest book, "Scaling...
View Article'The Future We Seek, As Always, Must Be Earned'
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has issued a clarion call for immediate action on climate change. Speaking in Jakarta on Sunday, he described it as a threat on par with terrorism: "Perhaps the...
View ArticleFeds Open Banks for MMJ Business
The Obama administration just said yes to banking for marijuana businesses in cannabis-legal states. New guidelines from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes...
View ArticleSo, Mr. President, You Want a New Syria Policy?
This weekend's collapse of the Geneva Syria "peace" talks throws into stark relief the unenviable fact that the White House has run out of "Hail Mary" passes which passed as its Syria policy. So if the...
View ArticleIncreasing the Minimum Wage Can Actually Create Jobs -- If It's Enforced
Back when I first studied economics, we "proved" in class that a minimum wage causes unemployment. You just draw supply and demand curves for labor, add a horizontal line for a wage above the "market...
View ArticleDebate Climate Solutions, Not the Facts
Last year, LCV joined tens of thousands of others in calling for the major TV networks to devote more time to covering the climate crisis. Recently, a group of senators committed to tackling climate...
View ArticleLobbying by Stealth
There are two interesting current additions to the annals of political influence, with its focus on quiet issue lobbying as opposed to the campaign contributions that are much more obvious and less...
View ArticleFive Years After the Stimulus, Reality Itself Is Under Attack
It's been five years since the passage of President Obama's stimulus bill (officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act). Its successes are well documented: an increase in the GDP of...
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Venezuela 'Unraveling?'
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López saying goodbye to his wife, Lilian Tintori de López, prior to his arrest yesterday in Caracas. (Photo courtesy dolartoday.com) The title of a Washington...
View ArticleAddressing War Crimes in Former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia fell apart in stages, and violence accompanied each of these stages. The first war was brief, a 10-day standoff between the Yugoslav Army and Slovenian forces in the summer of 1991, and...
View ArticleSeeing Through the CBO's Minimum Wage Fog
Harry Truman once asked for a one-armed economist in the hopes of never again having to hear "on the one hand, this" and "on the other hand, that." Given the recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
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Elitism and the Real Face of Conservatism
Have you heard the latest from Tom Perkins? This is the guy who, last month, had a letter published in the Wall Street Journal that likened the "progressive war on the American one percent," to the...
View ArticleLament and Sadness Over Stalled Immigration Reform
Our nation has no shortage of venues in which to witness the urgency for immigration reform. However, I would submit that the need is no more palpable than in the pews of Hispanic evangelical churches....
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