Watch: What the 1 Percent Don't Want You to Know
Previously published on BillMoyers.com. The median pay for the top 100 highest-paid CEOs at America's publicly traded companies was a handsome $13.9 million in 2013. That's a 9 percent increase from...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to California's Water Crisis, We Are All in This Together
I grew up in a town with a nuclear reactor. The entire region was sold the promise of a power source and good-paying jobs, but that promise was inadequate given the environmental and safety risks my...
View ArticleRealizing Mayor Lumumba's Promise
When Chokwe Lumumba, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, passed away in February, he left behind a blueprint for combating poverty and promoting sustainability in America's post-industrial cities. In his...
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Rubin Carter's Hurricane
Memorialized in a Bob Dylan song and later in Denzel Washington's spellbinding, Academy Award-nominated portrayal on screen, Rubin Carter, who died in Toronto Sunday at age 76, was a force of nature....
View ArticleObamacare Will Continue to Benefit Young People at #EnrollmentMoments
You probably saw the push: basketball stars, late-night TV appearances, radio interviews and hilarious viral videos. The Obama administration's push to ensure young people got covered before the March...
View ArticleBehind the Egyptian Junta's Iron Curtain
Co-authored by Kate Chandley After a recent CODEPINK delegation to Egypt ended up in deportations and assault, we have become acutely aware of some of the horrors that Egyptians are facing in the...
View ArticleLesbian Couple Finally Gets Prop 8 Lawyer to Change His Mind (VIDEO)
Since the mid '90s Charles Cooper has been one of the country's leading attorneys fighting to prevent gay couples from marrying. And until recently he was one of the main lawyers defending Prop 8 in...
View ArticleEconomic Policy in a Post-Piketty World
Thomas Piketty's new book, Capital for the 21st Century, has done a remarkable job of focusing public attention on the growth of inequality in the last three decades and the risk that it will grow...
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Is Sentencing Reform Debate a Move Toward Drug Legalization?
Today, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, in his video speech of the week, has said that federal drug sentences are too long, and that he is hiring a dozen attorneys to process the applications for...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan's Own Revisionist History
There's an uproar in the LGBT community about Jo Becker's new book, Forcing the Spring, in which the author marks momentum for the marriage equality movement with the legal fight against California's...
View ArticleOn Being the Smartest Person in the Room
I recently read a very insightful list of things one learns after moving to Washington, D.C. I loved it so much for its pith and accuracy. As a newcomer to The District myself, I found particularly...
View ArticleMedicine and Self-Discovery: Part II of a Q&A With Dr. Victoria Sweet
Taking care of ourselves, both physically and mentally, is extremely important if we are to function at an optimal level. The effects of over-working, extreme exhaustion, and sleep deprivation can be...
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Projecting Power
Our nation is at a crossroads in history that presents us with many vexing challenges. We have by far the most powerful military in the world - we are the last standing superpower - but there are...
View ArticleThe Right Side of Donna Brazile
I nervously paced the lobby of a downtown Washington D.C. high rise, anticipating a meeting that was five months in the making. My hands tingled as I felt the adrenaline coarse through me, and while...
View ArticleShackling Mothers in Prison
Years ago, I had the honor of meeting mothers who endured the terrible experience of giving birth to their children in shackles. Each of these mothers shared with me their birthing stories. One mother...
View ArticleReducing Tuition, Not Offering More Loans, Will Make College Affordable
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is one half of the legislative duo who recently introduced a bill designed to ease the pain of repaying college costs by bringing in Wall Street. Yet, this is another typical...
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Government = Protection Racket for the 1 Percent
The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. According to "Working for the Few," a recent briefing paper from Oxfam, "In the US, the wealthiest one percent captured 95 percent of...
View ArticleThe Perils of Groupthink
There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades -- a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all of us. We're rugged individualists, aspirational in nature, and...
View ArticleFrom the Bay of Pigs to the 'Bay of Tweets'
Last week, the John F. Kennedy Library marked the 53rd anniversary of what it called "a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba." The invasion was a CIA covert operation with the...
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