'Less Violent' Does Not Have to Mean 'Apathetic'
As the United States ends its war in Afghanistan, it is a good time to reflect on American attitudes towards violence and war. A recent poll demonstrated something truly astonishing: A war that had...
View ArticleIs South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Violating Her Own State Law?
It's not clear what South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is trying to accomplish when she says, as she did on Feb. 20, that corporations with union representation shouldn't even think about locating in her...
View ArticleZohydro: The FDA-Approved Prescription for Addiction
In a few weeks, a powerful new opioid painkiller called Zohydro is expected to hit the market. Zohydro's easily crushed capsules will contain up to 50 milligrams of pure hydrocodone; that's 10 times...
View ArticleNeed a Reason to Cut Costs at Your Business? Blame Obamacare
As children, we learn quickly that blaming other people for our problems doesn't really work. In the end, we are accountable for our own actions and must take responsibility for our own decisions....
View ArticleLiberals Face a Hard Day's Knight?
That's a pretty pathetic knight up there on the cover of the March issue of Harper's Magazine. Battered and defeated, his shield in pieces, he's slumped and saddled backwards on a Democratic donkey...
View ArticleFox's Erick Erickson: Gay-Friendly Businesses Are 'Aiding and Abetting' the...
You're probably familiar with what might be the greatest scene from The West Wing. In a 2000 episode titled "The Midterms," the White House hosts a gathering of talk radio announcers and while...
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Et tu Hilton? Open Letter to Global Brands Who Love the Gays While Throwing...
This past fall I met Elvina Yuvakaeva, co-president of the Russian LGBT Sport Federation, while she was traveling through the U.S. Elvina briefed me on meetings she'd just had in Cleveland, location of...
View ArticleThe Apollo Theater and Politics
When President Obama famously serenaded Al Green at the Apollo Theater during a $200-per-ticket fundraiser two years ago he became the latest -- and certainly the coolest -- Democratic politician to...
View ArticleIt Ain't All Duck Dynasty Out Here
By now we've all heard of Arizona's SB 1062, the bill that, if signed by Governor Jan Brewer later this week, will legalize discrimination against the gay community, and for that matter, most anyone...
View ArticleWomen Succeed When We Overcome Mad Men Laws And Jim Crow Mores
As Democrats gather from across America this week, we have a special urgency in organizing for a women's economic agenda that not only advances equality but rejects discrimination. We know the stakes:...
View ArticleMeet America's Highest Paid Government Workers
As president of America's largest union of public service workers, I often hear from some politicians and pundits that government workers are overpaid. These folks might be surprised to learn that I...
View ArticleGod Hearts Queers! (The Bible Tells Me So): A Response to AZ Senate Bill 1062
As the State Senate and Governor of Arizona consider allowing "religious freedom" to deny goods and services to people who identify as gay or lesbian, why not revisit what the religion of those seeking...
View ArticleBoycotting Israel: Fiction and Reality
A few days ago, the GSMA, the world's leading organization of mobile users, held its big international event in Barcelona, and three Israeli companies were awarded prizes for their innovations. Just a...
View ArticleDon't Pile More Discrimination on LGBTQ Kids
The headlines hammer home something I see every day when working with homeless young people: it's often difficult and dangerous to be gay in our society. A law passed last week by the Arizona...
View ArticleWhat's the Matter with Kansas? Not a Damn Thing
In 2004, Thomas Frank wrote a book titled What's the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. It was an exploration of what voters in the heartland were thinking when they...
View ArticleThe Dingell Dynasty
The PBS show Downton Abbey -- about snooty Brits so snooty their snootiness is almost as snooty as their furniture -- fascinates Americans because English accents make us feel inferior and we love it....
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A Religious Freedom Parable
What follows is a modern-day parable. I think it's important to point that out up front, in order not to cause any undue offense. The scene: the near future, when Arizona (or any other state, for that...
View ArticleBallot Measure to Divide CA Into 6 Mini-States Is Based on Idea That Smaller...
Tim Draper, the legendary venture capitalist (Tesla, Baidu, Yahoo), also dabbles in politics -- albeit at a much lower rate of return. His latest foray into the political arena is a ballot initiative...
View ArticleWith Arizona "Beau Crow" Law Dead, Time to ENDA Discrimination
Wednesday marked the defeat of Arizona's "Beau Crow" law - a modern-day version of Jim Crow that would have given state endorsement to discrimination against gay and lesbian people. Yet LGBT...
View ArticleBrewer Spoiled my Entertainment
I have a confession: A part of me, a rather big part, was hoping that Arizona Governor, Jane Brewer did not veto a bill that would have allowed businesses that asserted their religious beliefs the...
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