Down the Deportation Rabbit Hole
The Migration Policy Institute released today another report that attempted to dig into the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) numbers and explain who has been deported under the Obama...
View ArticleHedges v. Obama: The Supreme Court Digs Its Head Deeper Into the Sand
On Monday the Supreme Court declined to consider Hedges v. Obama, a constitutional claim challenging a law that could enable the indefinite military detention of U.S. citizens -- within the U.S. --...
View ArticleWhat About NBA's Homophobe Owner?
While a racist in their midst deservedly gets the boot, the NBA and its players paid no attention when one of its owners gave half a million dollars to an anti-gay group, defended it and, despite a...
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Hate the Gays, Hate the Capitalists
Mississippi, a state that tends to be at the bottom of every index of states -- where bottom is not good -- has passed a misnamed Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Like most government legislation,...
View ArticleFast Food Pulls a Fast One
Our tax dollars are subsidizing both the fast-food workers who need the help and the companies' CEOs who don't. Bad enough that the empty calories of many a fast-food meal have all the nutritional...
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United Nations Goes Bollywood for Gay Rights (VIDEO)
At a UN press launch in Mumbai today, the United Nations Human Rights Office unveiled its latest weapon in the fight against homophobia: a Bollywood-style pop video called "The Welcome." The...
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Inequality in America: A Tale of Two Stories
There are two stories that try to explain the crush of inequality in our country -- two explanations for why inequality is increasing and too many Americans are desperately poor or barely getting by....
View ArticlePalestinian Unity (Fatah & Hamas) Is Best for Israel and Peace
The New York Times devoted a few thousand words on Tuesday to telling us what we already know: the peace process is dead and Prime Minister Netanyahu killed it. Of course, it hems and haws,...
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Rafi Behroozian: 'I Strongly Support the Media Revolution'
Rafi Behroozian was born in Herat in 1978 and lived in Iran as a migrant for 23 years. He returned to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. In the last decade he has been a musician and...
View ArticleReligious Freedom Wars: Why the UCC's Lawsuit Against NC Gay Marriage Ban...
In recent years, the religious and political right in this country has weaponized the Constitution. From bans on gay marriage to the right to own an assault rifle without a background check, the First...
View ArticleDerailing the High-Speed Trading Bullet Train Before It Crashes Our Economy
On the afternoon of May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its fastest nosedive ever. Within minutes, a trillion dollars in wealth went "poof." What happened? What set it off remains in...
View ArticleDonald Sterling and Privacy
Listening to the surreptitiously-recorded conversation between octogenarian Donald Sterling and his much younger girlfriend, I felt doubly sickened: first, by the casual racism of Sterling's comments;...
View ArticleWhy Uganda's Sam Kutesa Must Not Be Allowed to Become UN General Assembly...
Hon. Secretary of State John Kerry: Dear Secretary Kerry, As you know, Uganda's foreign affairs minister Sam Kutesa could become President of the United Nations General Assembly in June unless the...
View Article'The Language Gap' -- Liberal Guilt Creates Another Not-So-Magic Bullet
Why are people poor? Why do children of the poor not thrive? Over centuries, suggestions have ranged from genetic unworthiness to lack of marriage among their parents to a "culture of poverty" and...
View ArticleBundy and Sterling Projected Through a Freudian Lens
Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed swift and firm public and media condemnations against two individuals after they spouted clearly racist sentiments. In one case, even conservative Republican...
View ArticleRussia: Sanctions Are Not a Solution!
Co-authored by William Witenberg a contemporary artist focused on abstract painting On Monday and Tuesday America and the European Union announced new sanctions they are imposing on Russia and Russian...
View ArticleGodzilla: King of the Monsters
This article was co-written with Geoffrey Wilson, Research Assistant at Ploughshares Fund He's back. But there is more to this bad-boy lizard than you realize. Godzilla is coming to a screen near you...
View ArticleWait, There Are Elections in 2014? Why Should I Care?
Most of us remember what the late hours of Nov. 6, 2012 were like. For those of us watching, many looked on as President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden won the 18 electoral votes from Ohio...
View ArticleWhy Bridgegate Should Not Become Judgegate
New Jersey faces a grave constitutional crisis. Few are talking about it. Governor Christie has launched a dangerous and myopic campaign against the principles of judicial independence and separation...
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