Once Upon a Climate Change
Those who tell the stories rule the world, it's said, but it's hard to tell a story unless you know the ending. We don't yet know the ending of the climate change story. The beginning of the ending,...
View ArticleJohn Boehner Is Not the First GOP House Leader to Experience Dissention...
John Boehner is experiencing a difficult tenure as U.S. house speaker. Boehner was re-elected to the post by his Republican colleagues with just 220 votes in 2013, just six more votes than the 214...
View ArticlePentagon Top Brass Should Explain How This War Will End
This week, senior Pentagon officials and nominees for top defense policy posts will testify in Congress about the state of the U.S. armed forces and where national defense policy goes from here. As we...
View ArticleWhat Texas Lawmakers Really Achieved for Women
On Thursday, Texas lawmakers celebrated the "legislative achievements" they have accomplished for women's health. Yes, you read that correctly. You are to be forgiven if you cannot think of anything...
View ArticleFiddling While Rome Burns
What do Facebook, WhatsApp and the Ukraine have in common? Nothing, you might say at first -- but a lot if you think about it. At its most basic, they were all in the news last week -- with the...
View ArticleA Tax Cut That 'Pays For' Unemployment Insurance and Infrastructure
It is bad economic policy. But, all economic policy that could pass a Republican-controlled House of Representatives is bad. All they care about, really, is tax cuts for the wealthy. But those tax cuts...
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Tea Party Primary Problems
As we enter into what political wonks call "primary season," the next few months are going to prove instructive as to the relative strength in the Republican Party of both the Tea Party and the...
View ArticleOregon Attorney General Refuses to Defend Anti-Gay Law (VIDEO)
There's a fascinating new trend emerging in the state-by-state litigation over marriage equality: In increasing numbers, governors and attorneys general are announcing that they will no longer support...
View ArticleMy Grandma Is Usually Right
My grandma called last week. She'd been clipping news stories about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans* (LGBT) movement's progress all over the country and had some questions for me. In 2009 she'd...
View ArticleA Gathering Storm of Bigotry and Discrimination
It's about time! Prompted by ever-vigilant bloggers, leading LGBT advocates have sounded a belated alarm about the steady stream of proposed state laws designed to deny basic human rights to LGBT...
View ArticleExplaining America's New Place in the World
There has been a near constant stream of commentary from right-wing pundits claiming that America is in a headlong retreat from the world and that it is all President Obama's fault. If the President...
View ArticleThe Plan Behind the TransPacific Partnership to Destroy National Sovereignty
The TransPacific Partnership is labelled as a "free trade" magic elixir that will cure all ills - Jobs! Prosperity! World Peace! - but in fact it's a toxic brew that weakens the American body politic...
View ArticleThe Power of Visual Media
The Midrash teaches "eino domeh shmiah l'reiyah," that hearing about something is incomparable to seeing it. No matter how clearly or vividly something is explained, no description of an event or...
View ArticleArizona Is Better Than This
Here we go again. Arizona lawmakers need to get a reality check on the effects of SB 1062. The local economy will suffer just like when SB 1070 was made into law affecting both commerce and reputation....
View ArticlePreventing Sexual Violence Is a National Security Imperative
Imagine that you're caught in the cross-hairs of a civil war. Your family has been ripped apart, your home destroyed, your life forever changed. For many women in the world today, these horrors are...
View ArticleWhy the World Is So Coup-ky
In this week's edition of "Name That Dissolved Government," we talk to Ukraine (or the Ukraine if you so please). This newly overthrown country wanted stronger ties to Russia. Only it didn't ask its...
View ArticlePolarized Psychology: Is Science Devalued in a Divided Society?
How do we share our research in a politically polarized America when only half the country may be receptive to our findings? That was a key question from the 2014 Society for Personality and Social...
View ArticleRomania's Fraying Social Safety Net
Romania is near the bottom of all social indicators in Europe. If you live in Denmark, you have approximately a one in seven chance of growing up in poverty -- or what Brussels calls AROPE (at risk of...
View ArticleHow Environmentalists Created the Koch Brothers, and How the Heartland...
A Plan for Destroying Freedom and the Planet in One Sweeping Move When Big Oil and Big Green clash in public, reporters don't even need to witness the event to write an accurate story about it. That...
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