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May Day -- Then and Now
Unlike the rest of the world's democracies, the United States doesn't use the metric system, doesn't require employers to provide workers with paid vacations, hasn't abolished the death penalty and...
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Study: Blacks, Latinos, Low-income Americans Live Closest to Dangerous...
A new study released today finds that the Americans who live near hazardous chemical industrial facilities are disproportionately African American or Latino, are more likely to live in poverty, and...
View ArticlePolitics Belong in Science Fiction
Writing in last week's USA Today, Glenn Harlan Reynolds has made a case for why he feels that politics don't belong in science fiction. He begins: There was a time when science fiction was a place to...
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The Roberts Court Gave Affirmative Action Its Last Rites, It's Up to Us to...
In my birth year, 1948, the Supreme Court of the United States rendered a unanimous landmark decision in Shelley v. Kraemer that racially restrictive covenants, or conditions placed on property deeds...
View ArticleWorking the Dark Side
Ten years ago, photos of the crucifixion -- and worse -- were released to the American public. The media still call it "the Abu Ghraib scandal," as though, oops, the awkward repercussions for Team Bush...
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Hasina Safi: 'One New Phenomenon Is the Men Who Believe in Women and Their...
Hasina Safi is the Director of the Afghan Women's Network, an organization of women boasting 5,000 members and 65 member organizations. Safi was featured prominently in the 2011 documentary Peace...
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It All Comes Back to the Reading Gap
When President Obama announced an initiative focused on young men of color, he shared a statistic that took my breath away: 86 percent of African American boys can't read proficiently in fourth grade,...
View ArticleKerry as Churchill
Looking across the landscape of world affairs, from sectarian carnage to Middle East instability, from climate change that threatens the earth to a Russian dictator who threatens security in Europe,...
View ArticleThe Shame and Ignominy of Rep. Bennie Thompson
Rep. Bennie Thompson has covered himself, and the entire sweep of his brand of big government race-baiting liberalism, with another shroud of shame and ignominy. How, you ask? Or, candidly, how you ask...
View ArticleU.S. Should Pull Funding From Exxon's Deadly Pipeline Project
This week, the Nation published an exposé revealing shocking new details about ExxonMobil's deadly natural gas pipeline project in Papua New Guinea. Reporter Ian Shearn reveals new allegations that the...
View ArticleObama and Castro: Closer, But No Cigar
Cubans are a proud people. Feisty and industrious. They stood up to their overwhelmingly more powerful neighbor and achieved higher literacy, life expectancy and better healthcare in comparison to...
View ArticleVoting Rights: The Real (and Continuing) Battle Against Racism
While the racist harangues of Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling have been consuming air time and newsprint, institutional racism in the form of discrimination against African-American voters remains on...
View ArticleEnviro Groups Call for an Emergency Order Ending Crude Oil Transport by Rail...
On April 30 in Lynchburg, Va., yet another train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded, spilling oil into the James River, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people from their homes and causing...
View ArticleDonald Sterling's Comments Shed Light on the Underreported Plight of Israel's...
The publication of an audio recording that features the white owner of an American basketball team berating his girlfriend for being seen in public with black people has injected new life into a number...
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A Dad, an Animal Rights Protest and the Exploitation of Children
Animal rights activists -- and children -- march on the campus of UCLA April 25th, 2014. On Friday, April 25th, 2014, I witnessed the inappropriate political use of several elementary school age...
View ArticleMcCutcheon's Contradictions
The recent McCutcheon v. Federal Elections Commission decision pushed the Supreme Court's aggressive attack on campaign finance reform further than it has ever done. In this case, it struck down...
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The Minimum Wage Index: Why the GOP's Filibuster Will Hurt Workers
This week, a minority of United States senators blocked a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour from coming to a vote, overruling the 54 senators who supported the bill. If the bill...
View ArticleIs It Time to Update the Second Amendment?
As Winston Churchill famously said, "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing -- after they have tried everything else." It was a backhanded compliment about our ability to find the...
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