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Cesar Chavez's Legacy
Many people thought Cesar Chavez was crazy to think he could build a union among migrant farmworkers. Since the early 1900s, unions had been trying and failing to organize California's unskilled...
View ArticleMilitary Drills and the Harmful Cycle of Fear
The annual South Korea-U.S. military drills began again on Feb 24, 2014 and will last until April 18th. The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) opposes these annual drills which began in 1976....
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The Widening Lens: Jonathan Schell and the Fate of the Earth
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com “Up to a few months ago, Ben Suc was a prosperous village of some thirty-five hundred people.” That is the initial line of The Village of Ben Suc, his first book, a...
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Will ACA Late Surge Dismay GOP Fans?
By: Mark Green LISTEN HERE: Bob Shrum and Torie Clarke diagnose Obamacare on eve of April deadline. Growing from six enrollees on first day of website to nearly seven million, is this biggest comeback...
View ArticleHow to Save Obamacare -- and the Senate
As readers of these posts will recall, I'm not the biggest fan of the Affordable Care Act. My view is that the legislative compromises needed to get the ACA through Congress made it an unwieldy mess;...
View ArticleUkrainian Crisis: Product of Excessive Foreign Meddling And Political...
It is indeed saddening to watch these days the unfolding events in Ukraine, where in a matter of weeks, peaceful cities around the country turned into places of violent protests, divided the population...
View ArticleAmerica's Pension Black Hole: Dissecting Warren Buffett's Tapeworm
In Berkshire Hathaway's latest annual letter, Warren Buffett described public pension plans as a "gigantic financial tapeworm" and warned of a decade of pain. He was right on the first point, less so...
View ArticleWhat I Told the NSA
Because of my service on the President's Review Group last fall, which made recommendations to the president about NSA surveillance and related issues, the NSA invited me to speak today to the NSA...
View ArticleWatch: Public Schools for Sale?
Previously published on BillMoyers.com Public education is becoming big business as bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity investors are entering what they consider to be an "emerging market."...
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Democracy vs. Oligarchy
In his 1943 painting "Freedom of Speech," Norman Rockwell illustrated American democracy in action by depicting a man speaking up at a town meeting. A framed poster of Rockwell's painting hangs proudly...
View ArticleMichigan Gay and Lesbian Couples' Marriages Valid Everywhere but Michigan...
It's an awkward time for gay and lesbian couples in Michigan. If they are among the 323 such couples who married in their home state during a brief window of time, the marriage licenses are recognized...
View ArticleNo Equitable Tolling in Hague Abduction Convention
In early March, the United States Supreme Court handed down the opinion in its most recent international abduction case, Lozano v. Alvarez. Justice Thomas wrote for the unanimous Court, holding that...
View ArticleCesar Chavez and the UFW's Questionable Tactics
California Governor Jerry Brown has declared today as Cesar Chavez Day. Coincidentally, a new biopic about the labor rights activist was released last week. The United Farm Workers, the organization...
View Article'This Is Not Prostitution -- This Is Child Rape.'
Not too long ago, when a man hit his wife, it was considered a private matter. But, because of the domestic violence movement, the hidden, normalized ways in which women were abused in their homes got...
View ArticleContinuing the Fight for Women's Rights With Paycheck Fairness
When Jeannette Rankin of Montana was elected as the first woman to serve in Congress, she knew that she would not be the last. Since her swearing in to office in 1916 -- four years before the...
View ArticleWhat the Controversial New Georgia Gun Law Really Says
You know that gun control is no longer an issue, either pro or con, when both sides try to make you believe that something big has happened when nothing of any real importance happened at all. I'm...
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Democrats Should Launch Pro-Obamacare Ad Campaign
Everyone's talking about Obamacare today, since it is the deadline for signing up for health insurance in the first "open enrollment" period for the marketplace exchanges. The final numbers aren't in...
View ArticleIndia: The World's Largest Democracy Goes to the Polls
India, a country of contradictions, concurrently hosts both -- a third of the world's poor and also the second largest constellation of Facebook fans. The upcoming national election could possibly...
View ArticleThe Tax Code in Action: Charity Starts at the Top
According to press accounts, former Senator Jim DeMint is likely earning in the neighborhood of $1 million a year for heading up the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing Washington think tank. The fact...
View ArticleSEC Goes Rogue, Defies Congress
The Jumpstart Our Business Starups Act, also known as the JOBS Act, is meant to spur growth of small businesses in the United States. A start-up for this purpose is currently defined as a business...
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