Loss of Dreams: The Turkish Model Falling Apart
One of the most intense and painful types of grief is caused by lost dreams. The bigger the dream is, the more real and likely to be fulfilled in your perception, the closer for these dreams to become...
View ArticleUnited We Win: How Progressives Defeated the Chained CPI
Last week, progressive groups won a huge victory when the White House announced the chained CPI Social Security cut will be not be in President Obama's budget for the upcoming year. We should reflect...
View ArticleThe Teachable Moment in Chris Christie's Budget Address
In Gov. Chris Christie's budget message this week, he rightly backed away from two reckless proposals that would have done even further damage to New Jersey's economy, but he missed a clear opportunity...
View ArticleIn-Flight Phone Calls May Be Annoying, But They Shouldn't Be Illegal
Last weekend, as I settled into my airplane seat and got ready to fly home to DC, the flight attendant told us to buckle our seat belts and turn off our phones, but that we could now leave gadgets on...
View ArticleRefusing to Defend Unjust Laws: Prosecutorial Discretion or Prosecutorial...
A prosecutor's exercise of discretion is the power to deprive an individual of his reputation, his liberty, and even his life. A prosecutor's discretion typically involves decisions over what crimes to...
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'Not Pro-Palestine or Pro-Israel but Pro-Human Rights'
Esther Kilchherr Alexandra Rijke In Mid-January the International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People was launched at the United Nations' headquarters, the idea being that intensified...
View ArticleDevils, Saints, and Denmark Vesey
On February 15, the city of Charleston, South Carolina unveiled a long-overdue monument to one of its most controversial historical figures. In scenic Hampton Park on the upper part of the peninsula,...
View ArticleDespite Gov. Jan Brewer's Veto, Most Arizona Businesses Still Have a 'License...
As LGBT activists cheered the demise of Arizona's controversial "license to discriminate" bill, one thing seemed lost in the media, in progressive circles, and among most Americans: Even with Gov. Jan...
View ArticleWhat Do Arizona's Anti-LGBT Bill and the Supreme Court Birth Control Cases...
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer was right to veto an extreme bill that would have allowed companies to refuse service to a wide range of people. This bill was absolutely unacceptable -- and people all over...
View ArticleCops and Muslims
The Law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the Law. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, Iolanthe One of the first questions law...
View ArticleWhat If Jesus Had Been More Like the Arizona House of Representatives?
By now you've probably heard that the Arizona House of Representatives voted 33-27 in support of a bill that would have allowed businesses to refuse service to gay customers if serving them offends...
View ArticleThe Keystone XL Pipeline: Who Benefits?
Forty-one years ago, when I used to get up at 5 a.m. to get on gas station lines with my parents, I started hearing about "energy independence" -- a secure source of supply for our energy needs. Today,...
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Red, Blue, and Purple States Agree: Limit Carbon Pollution
Conventional wisdom can be a funny thing, especially in politics. It's often based on anecdote rather than fact. Take the politics of climate, for instance. The fossil fuel industry, backed by the Koch...
View ArticleAbortion: Race, Rape and the Right
I want to tell you a story. I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. ... This is a story about a little girl walking home from the grocery store one sunny afternoon. ......
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Guatemala: Fighting for the Future
Claudia Paz y Paz sits at the center of the struggle for justice in Guatemala. As the public prosecutor, or national attorney general, she has launched investigations and prosecutions that have put...
View ArticleFinancing Mideast Flames -- Confronting BDS and the New Israel Fund
At a time when boycott, divestment and sanctions is seen as a viable threat to Israel, many are asking where the oxygen for the BDS movement is coming from. Many critics point to the prestigious New...
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Faith Leaders Call for Limits On Carbon Pollution
When EPA held a public hearing earlier this month on its proposed rule to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, I expected to hear comments from engineers, economists, policy experts, health...
View ArticleThe Limits of the Fed and the Right to a Job
Last week the Federal Reserve released transcripts from its 2008 policy meetings. Following the customary five-year lag, this release provides detailed insight into Fed officials' thinking during the...
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The Not So Free Exercise of Discrimination
Last year Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, most likely a presidential hopeful, poked his finger in the eye of conservatives of his own Republican Party by telling them to end "dumbed-down...
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Ghosts Ruling Over State Owned Educational Institutes of Pakistan
I completed my high school from one of Karachi's most prestigious institutes. Soon after I had given my Advanced Level examinations, I started considering the university options that I had. Karachi...
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