Three Reasons Why Reviving 'Benghazi' Is Stupid -- For the GOP
House Speaker John Boehner has made what appears to be the remarkably stupid decision to set up a "select" committee of the House to once again "investigate" the 2012 Benghazi incident in which U.S....
View Article'Greyhound Therapy' and America's Mental Health Crisis
By some estimates, one in four Americans suffers from a diagnosable mental illness, which includes depression, eating disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Yet conversations on mental illness...
View ArticleUnderstanding Clergy Sexual 'Abuse' as Torture
By Pam Spees, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights On Monday and Tuesday, a United Nations committee in Geneva asked the Vatican very tough questions about its track record on...
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Hollywood Boycott Threatens TransPacific Partnership
A Hollywood boycott is threatening the Obama administration's TransPacific Partnership agreement (TPP). The southeast Asian nation of Brunei, a would-be member of the TPP, is under fire from Hollywood...
View ArticleTech Policies That Transform Our Future
For the last decade, there has been a hot-blooded policy debate in Washington that most consumers are unaware of and to some, it may seem quite niche, yet network neutrality (a.k.a. the open Internet)...
View ArticleClimate and Cigarettes: Will the National Climate Assessment Spark Real Action?
This Tuesday, the White House released the most comprehensive (and frightening) report yet on the impacts that climate change is already having on the United States. "Climate change, once considered an...
View ArticleThe War on Poverty
Over 50 years ago, on Jan. 8, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an all-out war on poverty. His idea consisted of a simple plan that was laid out in the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964: to...
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What Do Immigrants Bring Us?
What do immigrants represent to the U.S. economy? The rising tide of immigration floats the boat of the U.S. economy. People do not immigrate to the United States to go on welfare! Foreigners...
View ArticleCelebrate Mother's Day: Reduce America's Maternal Mortality
While flowers and greeting cards are thoughtful, millions of American women need something more important on this Mother's Day: lifesaving preventive health care. Maternal mortality rates have doubled...
View ArticleHelping Ukraine: How?
On June 29, 2009, Bernie Madoff, who came to symbolize the vices of the 1 percenters in America, was sentenced to 150 years in prison. He defrauded his clients of $18 billion and got what he deserved...
View ArticleIt's All Greek to Me
The Supreme Court moved backwards this week. In Town of Greece, New York v. Galloway, the Court upheld the practice of opening monthly town board meetings with a prayer. The facts of the case were...
View ArticleThe Six Principles of the New Populism (and the Establishment's Nightmare)
More Americans than ever believe the economy is rigged in favor of Wall Street and big business and their enablers in Washington. We're five years into a so-called recovery that's been a bonanza for...
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Border Wars
Anyone who says, "All publicity is good publicity," has, obviously, never had bad publicity. There's also that other lame line about, "I don't care what you say about me as long as you spell my name...
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Breaking the Cycle of Internet Repression
"If you want to liberate a society," said Egyptian Arab Spring activist Wael Ghonim, "just give them the Internet." In retrospect, Ghonim should have qualified his statement to include the kind of...
View ArticleImmigration as River of No Return
There's Something about America Cultural integration is a critical ingredient in immigrants' success: only after profound grasp of the culture are people free to act and succeed. Integration doesn't...
View ArticleNews That Isn't News
Since Barack Obama took office, we've been bombarded with "news that isn't news" -- that's the partisan battles between opponents from both parties talking about their own party's virtues and opposing...
View ArticleSupreme Court Wrong to Give Blessing on Public Prayer
In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled Monday to allow a New York town to begin its council meetings with a Christian prayer. The ruling is a result of two local women suing officials in Greece, New...
View ArticleForcing Another Vote on Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Tuesday night, I forced a third committee vote on Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Today, I continued the legislative effort to overcome the fear of words shown by my Republican colleagues. I forced a...
View ArticleAnother Inmate Starves to Death
After visiting countless prisons around the world, I have pledged not to be silent on the atrocity of this unjust system. My heart bleeds whenever I read another tragic story of abuse. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs Say Strong Clean Energy Standards Make Good Business Sense
Energy is a hot topic right now, and much of the debate is centered on clean energy policies' impact on small businesses and their bottom lines. Some claim stronger energy standards will kill jobs and...
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