When It Comes to Mass Murder, Think Method and Means, Not Motive
After every mass murder, the question everyone asks is why it happened. How could anyone possibly be so violent, or so evil, or so out of control, or so crazy as to engage in the wholesale and...
View ArticleWhat Jerry Brown's Big Lead Means
With less than eight weeks to go till the California primary election, Governor Jerry Brown holds a commanding lead over the multi-partisan field in the latest Field Poll. Brown is at 57 percent. Far...
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Ryan Budget Flies in the Face of President Johnson's Legacy
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty, and as part of that effort, passed the Civil Rights act to protect Americans from discrimination and racism, ensure opportunity, and...
View ArticleLeading a New Wave of Women Into Politics
The number of women holding state office in California is at an all-time low. The percentage of women in the state legislature peaked in 2005 -- at 30.8 percent -- and has been falling ever since....
View ArticleIf It Weren't for a Handful of Sports Figures, America Would Not Have...
Sports and civil rights have long been intertwined. In America, from the end of the Civil War through the 1960s, there was no more pressing political issue than civil rights. As filmmaker Ken Burns...
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What You Think You Know About The Midterms Is Wrong
Everyone from the President on down seems concerned about how the midterm electorate's composition hurts Democrats. Some predict fewer younger voters turning out. Others point the finger at minorities....
View ArticleSister Frigidaire Tries To Ice MSNBC
David Shuster and Katie Couric have opened windows on Hillary Clinton's character and the view is not pretty. By speaking on cable television in the way that everyone regularly speaks on the Internet,...
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The Next 50 Years: Time for Culture Change on Racial Justice
This week, four U.S. presidents and thought leaders are convening at the Civil Rights Summit in Austin, Texas to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by President...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Bucks the Spirit of the 22nd Amendment
The motivation for the two term limit in the 22nd Amendment is that enough, even of a good thing, is enough. Given that the Clinton years were not an unmitigated boon, the electorate understandably has...
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The Power of Open Data
I applaud this week's historic release of Medicare payment and utilization information from CMS. It reminds me of a smaller, but similar, "big data" victory from my municipal past. When I was first...
View ArticleThe Drug War = Mass Deportation: 250,000 Deported for Drug Offenses in Last 6...
The drug war has increasingly become a war against migrant communities. It fuels racial profiling, border militarization, violence against immigrants, intrusive government surveillance and, especially,...
View ArticleThe Unforeseen Consequences of the Volunteer Army
Recent episodes of random violence at U.S. Army bases, the latest at Fort Hood in Texas, have underscored one of the little-recognized and heartrending consequences of our reliance on a volunteer...
View ArticlePassover, Idle Gossip and Competitive Altruism
This is the season of germination, liberation and rebirth in cultures all around the globe. My personal tradition, the Jewish tradition, celebrates the season as a confluence of the spring festival,...
View ArticleWeed Time With Bill Maher
Long before it was presidential to say marijuana is safer than alcohol, comedian, best-selling author, MLB Mets co-owner and progressive talk-show host Bill Maher (HBO's Real Time) was one of the...
View ArticleWhy Arizona "Religious Freedom" Movement Should Concern Rand Paul and the GOP
This article initially appeared in the Brown Political Review, Brown University's entirely student-written and student-run, nonpartisan magazine for political journalism. The idea of religious liberty...
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If "feminist" is such a tainted word, what word do we use now? "I think feminist has been given a bad name...I think any label is bad...I'm more than a label. I don't want to be labeled anything."...
View ArticlePeace Process Blame Game Won't Help the Parties Get There
Voices from the past, disconnected from today's realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, have come together at a time of crisis in the negotiations to tell Secretary of State John Kerry that...
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Why You'll Never Hear Me Call Myself A 'Pothead Mom,' No Matter How High I Am
Ever since Kiri Westby published her controversial and totally not anonymous piece, "Confessions of a Pothead Mom," I've gotten many a text/DM/FB message/email from someone asking: "Be honest -- are...
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Why Do Black Women Have to Look Like White Women to Serve Their Country?
I am proud to be an American and I feel very grateful to the men and women of the U.S. military who sacrifice their physical health, mental health, lives and limbs to keep us safe. My heart goes out...
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