Political Pluralism: How Government Can Support Conflicting Religious Beliefs
When World Vision USA announced three weeks ago that it would begin hiring Christians in same-sex marriages, the conservative reaction was strong and swift. Individual donors jammed the call center's...
View ArticleRepublicans Got 99 Problems, But Voter Fraud Ain't One
Originally posted on theGrio.com Your browser does not support iframes. Voting should not be a partisan issue, and yet Democratic leaders are the only politicians speaking out against the latest batch...
View ArticleFuzzy Thinking and Wooly Mammoths
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land. Christina Georgina Rossetti, Remember (1862) The news is out! All it will take for South Carolina to join 47 other states in having...
View ArticleCan Women Decide for Themselves?
Not a bad idea at all, making one's own decisions. Unfortunately, it's not always easy today if those are health care decisions, especially if you're a woman... especially if you're poor... especially...
View ArticleTears of Defiance, Resilience and Courage: Through It All, Somalia Will Rise
Last week, I could only watch on television news as soldiers herded scores of my countrymen on to trucks like livestock, to be driven to detention centers. Women carrying babies struggled to climb onto...
View ArticleGOP's Old Ploy: Tag President Obama as the Race Baiter
The GOP has resorted to another of its time-tested ploys to hammer President Obama. That's to tag him as a race baiter. The take-off point for this old ploy was Obama's keynote address at the recent...
View ArticleThe Youthful Face of Mass Violence in America
This latest attack by a student at Franklin High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, where 20 students were brutally stabbed graphically illustrates the desire for mass violence by certain segments of...
View ArticleThe Dishonorable Andrew Cuomo Meets the Hedge Fund / Charter School Zombies *
From May 4 to May 6, 2014 the Honorable Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York State, is scheduled to be the Honorary Chairman at a three-day charter school/hedge fund extravaganza that is anything but...
View ArticleDear President Obama
Dear President Obama, I wanted to make out with you. I was so in awe of the way you managed to get Obamacare through that insane Congress, run mostly by a bunch of Republicans. (OK, maybe they are not...
View ArticleA Very Good Friday
The good news today is that eight million people have now signed up for medical insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The better news is that, of those eight million, more than a third were...
View ArticleFour Years After the Blowout... Has Anything Changed?
Four years ago this Sunday night, BP's Mississippi Canyon Block 252 well blew out, killing 11 workers, destroying the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible rig, and putting an estimated 5 million barrels...
View ArticleWith Crime Rates Falling, There's No Need to Sacrifice Freedom for Safety
Americans cherish their freedom. They enjoy a degree of personal, social and political freedom nearly unrivaled in human history. So it is ironic and even tragic that they willingly forfeit so much of...
View ArticleUkraine Still Lives in a Man's World, Bans All Single Russian Men From Entry
Ukraine's most famous political figure and presidential candidate (Yulia Tymoshenko) and protest collective (Femen) may be women, but according to the government in Kyiv only men pose as a formidable...
View ArticleRiding Public Transit Best Way to Celebrate Earth Day
Earth Day is Tuesday, April 22, and like many Americans, you might be stumped about what more you can do to help the environment. You've recycled, installed energy-saving light bulbs and low-flow water...
View ArticleThe New HHS Secretary and America's Neglected Infections of Poverty
In her decade-long tenure at the Gates Foundation, Sylvia Mathews Burwell learned a lot about the close links between disease, poverty, and development. To be sure, the new Health and Human Services...
View ArticleDrop in Health Care-Acquired Infections Points the Way to Progress
Sometimes the news is good. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data showing that health care-acquired infections (HAIs) are decreasing in the nation's hospitals....
View ArticleDoes the Sudden Ukraine Deal Clear the Decks for Obama's Asia-Pacific Tour?
After spending Thursday in Geneva negotiating with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton, and Ukrainian Acting Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsia,...
View ArticlePrivate Spies Deserve More Scrutiny
It turns out being the only imprisoned journalist in the United States doesn't get you on CNN or MSNBC. If you're Barrett Brown, a firebrand with an outlandish style, a penchant for insulting those...
View ArticleMaking Strides for Preschool
New York City received a lot of attention recently with a bold promise made to some of its youngest residents: Mayor Bill de Blasio ran on a campaign to fund full-day public preschool for all New York...
View ArticleAlgerian Elections: The End of the Arab Spring?
As Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika secured his fourth term in office, many are wondering whether the 2010-11 Arab uprisings have had any lasting imprint on the region at all. Soon to be an...
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