Sunday Roundup
This week was consumed with the drama in Crimea, where 30,000 Russian troops provoked a tense standoff. Right on cue, the usual Beltway suspects whose foreign policy acumen gave us that glorious and...
View ArticleFighting Westboro Hate & A Secret
'My case made the national spotlight. There are almost a million articles on the Internet and I have done interviews across the world, but they won't tell you the real story. Up until this point, I...
View ArticleA Redress of Grievances
Most students in my American Government class at Eastern Kentucky University can readily list the rights enumerated in the First Amendment: freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly -- along with...
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War on Poverty: Progress, But More to Do
This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Johnson's War on Poverty. It was a multifaceted effort to tackle poverty in America and gave us initiatives that are still helping people today, such...
View ArticleConsensus on Immigration Reform? These Students Think It's Possible
GSPM Student Jalakoi Solomon co-authored this piece America is a nation of immigrants, whose hard work and determination have created the most prosperous and free nation in the history of mankind. Our...
View ArticleAttorney Gen. Holder Gets on Board With Naloxone to Prevent Fatal Overdoses
Today, overdose prevention advocates and drug policy reformers are feeling some wind beneath their wings as a result of a statement by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder encouraging expanded access to...
View ArticleA Commentator Lost in Washington's House of Columns
"There is the question of how to respond practically to Putin's aggression and there is the question of how to respond intellectually," writes Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, in...
View ArticlePostcard From Vienna: Europe's Stance on International Drug Policy
There is no doubt that the debate on international drug policy is gathering pace and, this week in Vienna, we have before us an opportunity in Europe to contribute to that discussion. This year the...
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More Evidence That SNAP Caseloads Have Started Falling
A million fewer people received SNAP (formerly food stamps) last December than in December 2012, the Agriculture Department announced Friday -- the fourth straight month in which participation fell...
View ArticleDecoding Hamid Karzai
By Suchitra Vijayan and Prakhar Sharma Karzai has retreated from many ideological and political positions in the face of recalcitrant events and shifting context. The most irreconcilable are his...
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Atheists Are Not Offended by a Cross, They Are Offended by Discrimination
When you build a skyscraper using steel beams you build it using crossbeams. When these buildings come down, there is a high chance some of those crossbeams will remain standing. When two planes took...
View ArticlePaul Ryan and the Politics That Turn Stomachs
It's hard to imagine conservative political ideology becoming so twisted that one of its standard bearers would step up to a podium and assert poor children are better off going hungry. Yet when Paul...
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Might Putin Face International Criminal Court by Annexing Crimea?
The veto at the UN Security Council and traditional diplomacy may be a de facto get-out-of-jail card, even as international criminal justice gains definition in resolving conflicts between and within...
View ArticlePutin's Precedent and Other Topics
Putin's Precedent. Awash in the current of the National Front. Luc Bondy's Marivaux revival at the Odéon. Remember Hitler, waiting for the end of the Winter Olympics that he had organized at great...
View ArticleTurkey's PM Mr. Erdoğan's 'Othering' Is Unbearable
"Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live," said British director Steve McQueen when he received the Best Picture award at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony. Many people thought diversity was...
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Republicans Begin Evolving on Gay Marriage
Is the gay marriage issue beginning to disappear from the Republican Party's playbook? Are Republicans on the verge of admitting defeat and deciding to move on? The answer is likely "not quite yet" to...
View ArticleNew York Times Budget Reporting Looks Like RT on Ukraine
RT, the Russian government-owned English-language television network, has been the butt of much humor in recent days. It has mindlessly repeated Russian propaganda surrounding the events in Ukraine....
View ArticleStanding on Shaky Ground
Yesterday, we marched. Yesterday, we chanted. And yesterday, we stood in solidarity against an unjust law. Convening in Tallahassee, Florida, we organized a massive rally in a state that is ground zero...
View ArticlePeer Review Is Time-Tested to Withstand Political Fashion Trends
Expert peer review is the best way to judge research proposals and their scientific merit. It is time-tested to withstand political fashion trends and to bring to the forefront the most promising...
View ArticleWhy Are So Many Conservative Politicians Brandishing Guns?
Yes, we know it's all a show, that it's all about appealing to (appeasing) the NRA crowd, and demonstrating that a buttoned-down insider like Mitch McConnell is really one of the guys. Fine. But I have...
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