My Vote Is Not for Sale
Why do Republicans hate renewable energy? What is the real issue? It seems to me that renewable energy is the only truly responsible and fiscally conservative path we can take on energy policy and yet...
View ArticleIf Congressman Mike Honda Is Dodging Anything, It's Khanna's Desperate Early...
Congressman Mike Honda knows how to run a campaign, and at age 72, after serving Santa Clara since 1990, the last 14 in the House, he knows what it means to be a public servant. In his life, I don't...
View ArticleContextualizing Anti-Semitism in Modern America
Earlier this year, I received a special invitation to visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with a group of distinguished young scholars. I was thrilled by the prospect of receiving a guided tour...
View ArticleEgypt and the Frog
Egypt is like an exposed nerve. On most days, it is secondary, numbed by the repetitions of my pedestrian routine. I have also taught myself a few tricks to maneuver around it. Neglect? Check....
View ArticleA Misfortune, Not a Crime
Despite careful monitoring and daily insulin, many people with type-I diabetes experience emergencies like diabetic coma that require hospital care. Imagine a dystopic world where this care was not...
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15 Now to Starbucks's CEO: Pay Your Employees $15 an Hour!
On Saturday, April 12, New York City workers and 15 Now (15now.org) activists gathered on the Fulton Mall in Brooklyn to participate in a national day of action against Starbucks Corporation. With...
View ArticleObama Administration Tries to Walk the Immigration Reform/Enforcement Line,...
In its first five years, the Obama administration's attempt to reconcile its support for immigration reform legislation with harsh enforcement policies has been strained, but not incoherent or without...
View ArticleWhat's Next for Obamacare?
With the completion of open enrollment for individual health insurance, the focus on Obamacare shifts from how many people signed up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act to who signed up. The...
View ArticleGender Inequality in the Labor Market: Don't Call It a Wage Gap
When President Obama announced the Paycheck Fairness Act on Equal Pay Day this week, we applauded his efforts to address the so-called "gender wage gap" but, from a data point of view, mourn the fact...
View ArticleA Physician's Take on the Affordable Care Act
Dr. Victoria Sweet was a physician for 20 years at San Francisco's Laguna Honda hospital, the last almshouse of the country. She spent time with complicated patients while getting her Ph.D. in history....
View ArticleIt's Time to Drain the Swamp in Sacramento
If the scandals involving California state senators Leland Yee, Ron Calderon, and Roderick Wright have proven anything it is that the existing system for the Senate to police the ethics of its own...
View ArticleWe Can't Talk About Creating Middle Class Jobs Without Talking About 'The...
The Los Angeles 2020 Commission was tasked with tackling many of our region's biggest issues, and in the coming weeks, their report will be the subject of much discussion and debate. However,...
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Historic Green Mountain Lookout Now Saved
Written by Brian Turner, San Francisco Field Office Dawn in the Cascades from the summit of Green Mountain Amid the devastation following a landslide near the rural town of Darrington, Washington,...
View ArticleJohnny Cash Hits the Campaign Trail in South Dakota Senate Race
Well, okay, Johnny hasn't risen from the dead to run for Senate in South Dakota. But the Democratic candidate in the race, Rick Weiland (who, full disclosure, is a friend whose campaign I am doing some...
View ArticleCongrats, Graduates: Now Go Out There and Redefine Success
We're coming up on one of my favorite times of the year: that time, just after spring breaks out but before summer begins, in which thousands of college graduates are released into the world. And as...
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Rand Paul Sounds Presidential in The Washington Post
AP photograph Senator Rand Paul wants to set the record straight on an issue that the foreign policy community in Washington considers one of the biggest priorities on its docket: the Iranian nuclear...
View ArticleEqual Pay for Equal Work: A Response to Phyllis Schlafly
While not necessarily carried out in practice, equal pay for equal work has been law in the United States since the 1960s. Phyllis Schlafly, a major opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment during the...
View ArticleLannisters in Foggy Bottom
The people of Syria, Ukraine, and Pakistan must ponder the worth of America's word. Foggy Bottom and the White House have fast been developing a track record of overpromising and under-delivering....
View ArticleMD Expands Opportunities for Abused, Undocumented Children
Every year thousands of unaccompanied and undocumented children come to the United States from across the globe. Often, they are fleeing life-threatening violence or escaping child abuse and neglect....
View ArticleUkraine Diplomatic Deal: Necessary Next Steps
The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) urges Congress, the Obama administration and policymakers throughout the European Union to adopt policies toward the Ukraine crisis that deescalate...
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