Optimism Will Make the World a Better Place
Some 1.2 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day. Wars rage around the world. Climate change is knocking at our door. In all, there's a lot to be afraid of. But there's also a lot to be proud...
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5 Ways Eric Cantor Can Be a Good Food Champion
As a professional advocate of the Good Food Movement, I expected to see a lot of things when a recent visit to the University of Michigan took me to Zingerman's Roadhouse, a well-known casual dining...
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The Budget Deal's Crass and Craven Politics
The big political news of the day is that Republican Representative Paul Ryan and Democratic Senator Patty Murray have hammered out a new budget deal. Mostly, this news focuses on the details of the...
View ArticleAlert: The Nuclear Agreement Is Risky for Iran Too
Is the "Joint Plan of Action" accord to curb Iran's nuclear program a good agreement for the West and Middle East peace, or is the agreement, signed November 24 in Geneva, just the same treacherous...
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How a Handshake Can Grip the World: 4 Tips to Take You to the Top
Millions of astounded viewers watched as President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro shook hands on live television in an unplanned moment at the South African Memorial Service for legendary...
View ArticleThe Tea Party Gets It Right II: New York's Yankee-Soccer Boondoggle versus de...
It never seems to stop. Impoverished American cities can't find money for schools or transit, but pump hundreds of millions into sports facilities owned by billionaires. Last week it was Atlanta's...
View ArticleGetting Governments and the United Nations to Focus on Women and Youth
"Although things have changed a great deal here in the U.S., we still have to fight for women's rights every day. And the fight is even more robust in developing nations where women are marginalized,...
View ArticleRestore the 1968 Minimum Wage
The current minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. If one works at this rate 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year (i.e., with no sick days, holidays or vacation days whatsoever) it yields an annual income of...
View ArticleWhat Happened When I Didn't Have Paid Family Leave
I ran smack into the paid family leave debate long before I had kids. I was working as a newspaper reporter in South Carolina, far from my Midwestern hometown, but still glad to have snagged a job in...
View ArticlePelosi Should Demand Unemployment Insurance Extension and a Vote on Senate...
There are many, many budget proposals superior to the one presented yesterday, but none of those had a prayer of passage. I had proposed a much better budget bill that could have passed. It would have...
View ArticleThe Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Deal: A Game Changer for Jewish-Muslim Relations
Government leadership on Red Sea-Dead Sea deal creates a potential "safe" platform for American Jews and American Muslims to cooperate more broadly on Middle Eastern development projects. The widely...
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Rooftops to Deserts: How Policy Directs the Growth of Renewables
Dropping costs and increasing consumer demand are expanding the market for renewable energy. Policy is shaping it. Specific policies are designed to drive growth of particular types of renewable...
View ArticleWhen 'Accommodating' the Other Side Gets Expensive
Big, expensive fights often have potential future unintended consequences that attract little attention in the heat of battle. Take the Michael Jackson/AEG trial, for instance. The Jackson plaintiffs...
View ArticleObama's Falling Latino Support Creates a Rare Opportunity for the GOP
For Republicans, the cause of the Electoral College map's increasing hostility can be traced to the party's inability to seriously compete for the country's now-large Latino population. Battleground...
View ArticleWe Have Met the Enemy and She Is Old
"When you are old and grey and full of sleep," the William Butler Yeats poem begins, "And nodding by the fire ..." Our culture has always been emotional -- sentimental, even -- about old age. So when...
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Obama Team Must Be Fair, but Tough, on For-Profit Colleges
This morning the U.S. Department of Education convenes what may finally be the last session of its negotiated rulemaking on a proposed "gainful employment" rule, a measure aimed at cutting off federal...
View ArticleDon't Bargain Away Benefits
As part of the deal to end the government shutdown, continue funding the government until Jan. 15 and extend the debt ceiling until Feb. 7, Congress convened a budget conference committee between the...
View ArticleSenator Elizabeth Warren Endorses Interim Iran Nuclear Deal
Just over a week ago, Just Foreign Policy issued a very simple, reasonable demand: that Massachusetts Senator and progressive champion Elizabeth Warren endorse the interim nuclear deal that the Obama...
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What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?: Sheryl Sandberg, Nancy Pelosi,...
"Why haven't we ever had a woman president?" When my eight-year-old daughter posed this seemingly simple question to me, I--despite my many years of writing about gender issues and running a women's...
View ArticleOur Year of Living Dangerously
As we come to the first anniversary of the massacre of twenty small children and seven of their devoted school staff, our nation once again has its heart broken by searing memories of one of America's...
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