Abortion Wars: A Judge Speaks of Women's Health, Women's Needs
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson, in his recent ruling that Alabama's abortion law must go to trial, raises the interesting issue of an "undue burden" on pregnant women. Imagine that. Bringing the...
View ArticleMcCutcheon Lays Groundwork for Ruination of Democracy
With its decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a campaign finance law for the seventh time since Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court in 2005. His vision of money in...
View ArticleUtah Will Try to Save Its Anti-Gay Marriage Ban This Thursday (VIDEO)
All eyes should be on Utah this week, as the state heads to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to defend its anti-gay marriage ban. The law was already overturned once, back in December. That led to a...
View ArticleThe Fear Behind the Sexism in Hayden's Attack on Feinstein
When U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein challenged the Central Intelligence Agency on its record of enhanced interrogation techniques, the nation's former chief intelligence...
View ArticlePresident Obama Takes Executive Action for Equal Pay: Now It's Time for...
9to5 applauds President Obama's two executive actions aimed at ending pay discrimination against women and people of color. The president is expected to sign the executive orders during an event at the...
View ArticleExtending the Unemployment Insurance Lifeline for Struggling Americans
"Now that I need help it's nowhere to be found..." My constituent, Cassie Jones,* sits in her apartment, which she has rented since 1986, wondering how she will pay the rent next month. Since she lost...
View ArticleCalifornia's 'Up-Wing' Governors: Jerry Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gray Davis
Governor Jerry Brown has just turned 76. An increasingly timeless figure, as focused on the future of civilization today as the nation's oldest governor as he was when he was its youngest after his...
View ArticleThat Name Sounds Familiar
To Americans of a certain age, the law firm that recently claimed to exonerate New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in the Bridgegate Affair should sound a tad familiar: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. In...
View ArticleThe GOP Needs an Obamacare Strategy
After a long period in the political winter, it appears that the GOP finally has something to be excited about -- the Obama administration's health care debacle. However, now they have "caught"...
View ArticleWhy Facts Matter: Science Is Not an Opinion
In a recent tweet, Donald Trump threw out this witticism: "In New York, March was the coldest month in recorded history - we could use some GLOBAL WARMING!" The capital letters and exclamation point...
View Article"Waterboard Him Some More"
CIA torture program architect and defender Jose Rodriguez is certain that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's (SSCI) torture study is full of errors. Rodriguez does not say what those errors...
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Poor John Kerry, He Never Gets a Break
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Watching Secretary of State John Kerry's April 8 appearance in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from afar, you couldn't help but feel sorry for the man....
View ArticleHealth Care - Making Progress
You rarely see headlines such as "Federal Food Aid Saves Millions," or "Unemployment Insurance Rescues Homeowners" or "Social Security Ends Poverty for the Aging." Government programs that work don't...
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Jeb Bush to Address Convention of Predatory For-Profit Colleges
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) will be the keynote speaker at the Las Vegas annual convention of the trade association of for-profit colleges, APSCU, according to the group's website. Although...
View ArticleThe Growing, Neglected Challenges of LGBT Latino Elders
Latino elders who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) face additional challenges as they age, compounded by barriers rooted in their racial and ethnic identities, as well as LGBT stigma...
View ArticleThe Fight for Equal Pay Has Just Begun
My mother, Eileen Quinn, was born before women in our country had the right to vote. It's hard to imagine such a time, but thankfully -- over the last few decades -- many barriers to equal rights for...
View ArticleWhy Are Americans Paying to Be Searched, Spied On, Shot At and Robbed Blind...
The State Department wants $400,000 to purchase a fiberglass sculpture of a camel looking at a needle for its new embassy in Pakistan. They've already spent their allotted $630,000 to increase the...
View ArticleChicago Pension-Cutting Plan Would Harm City Retirees, Neighborhoods
The recent clamor over the city of Chicago's supposed "pension crisis" has drowned out many salient facts. Proponents of the drastic cuts sought by the city have threatened a range of doomsday...
View ArticleStress, Fear, and the Changing Face of Poverty
The worst thing about being poor is the fear. It's the fear of not being able to afford a place to live. It's the fear of not being able to feed the kids, or keep the beloved family pet. It's the fear...
View ArticleSen. Diane Feinstein Bears the Wrath of Ex-CIA Officials
Last week Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was finally able to do something that she has wanted to do for over a year: send a multi-year,...
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