Obamacare -- Even Better Than I Expected for My Family
I completed my New York Obamacare insurance application yesterday. So did this Obamacare booster get a rude awakening? Not. For two adults and two kids, we got a $500 deductible and $15 primary care...
View ArticleSenator Rand Paul Defended
In LAWFARE (May 12, 2014) (David Barron, Targeted Killing, and Rand Paul's Wrongheaded Oped) Benjamin Wittes unconvincingly summons precedents extracted from Alice in Wonderland and The Hunting of the...
View ArticleThe GOP's Benghazi Witch Hunt
You don't need a degree in political science to know that the House Republicans' latest "investigation" of Benghazi is a political witch hunt. It was clear before the Republican chairman of the new...
View ArticleThe Year of Edward Snowden
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Make no mistake: it's been the year of Edward Snowden. Not since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War has a trove of documents revealing...
View ArticleListen to Your Creative Federal Employees
With budgets on the decline but expectations of government remaining appropriately high, every federal leader and front-line employee needs to find new ways of delivering value. This is possible with...
View ArticleEveryone Loves a Parade
Everyone loves a parade. I'm no exception. As a kid, I remember first watching parades and then, as a band member, marching in them. I used to play trumpet. 76 trombones was my mantra. And to this day,...
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Massoud Hassanzada: 'The Biggest Challenge Facing Afghanistan Is Absence of...
Massoud Hassanzada is a poet, journalist, musician, and literary critic from Herat. He has co-founded Morcha [the Ants] the first rock band in Afghanistan. Photo : Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA / Matthieu...
View ArticleWhen the Personal Is Judicial: What's So Jewish About Justice Kagan's Opinion...
Co-authored with Lila Corwin Berman, Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History, Temple University. Her historical error aside, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's decision to close her...
View ArticleAbortion, Like Contraception, Is Essential Health Care That Saves Lives
When we talk about procedures and treatments that prevent heart attacks, we call it cardiac care. Children receive pediatric care, and anyone who takes ibuprofen is dealing with pain care. So why would...
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Time to Smack Down Trespassing Vigilantes and Thugs
"This land is your land, this land is my land," Woody Guthrie, 1952. "This is OUR land," Jarbidge Shovel Brigade Official Web Site, 2002. On Sept. 1, 1846, my great-grandfather's great-grandfather...
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Marco Rubio: The Dirty Energy President
On Sunday's ABC This Week, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)Â expressed two notable opinions. First, he said he's ready to be president of the United States. Second, he asserted that climate change is not...
View ArticleWill America's Failed Domestic Policy Spur a New Cold War?
We hear that the world is returning to the Cold War, where geo-political struggles, like Russia's seizure of Crimea, overtake our leaders' ability to cooperatively address today's blossoming world...
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What's Really Wrong With Pentagon's Proposed Pay Cuts
"Will you encourage your three boys to join the military?" That's a question I get often because my husband, dad and father-in-law are Navy pilots. But it's a question I struggle with, especially...
View ArticleStar Wars Unveiling: Our Next Amendment
It is a dark time for the republic. Imperialist forces have colluded to make a mockery of our democratic process, not unlike Palpatine's maneuverings in advance of his dissolution of the Imperial...
View ArticleLook Out, Wall Street, the New Populism Is Coming
Even as the Campaign for America's Future prepares for its May conference on the New Populism, attacks on populism keep coming from all directions. One of the latest salvos to be publicized comes in...
View ArticleProgressive Politics After Piketty: Making the Case for Managed Markets
It is very rare for the Left to have a best-seller but we have one now. The French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is currently being both widely read and even more...
View ArticleTim Geithner and the Wall Street Bailout Redux
Timothy Geithner's new book about the financial crisis, Stress Test, is basically an argument that the Wall Street bailout succeeded. That's hardly surprising, given that Geithner was in charge of the...
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Why a Forced Sterling Sale Is Bad News for LA Basketball Fans, and What...
Does the "NBA Cares?" Sterling Should "Leave the Right Way!" Silver Shoud "Commish the Right Way!" Yes, Donald Sterling is a reprehensible human being. Yes, Donald Sterling has no business owning or...
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Mohammad Ismail Qassemyar: 'Poverty and Unemployment Have Paralyzed the Lives...
Mohammad Ismail Qassemyar is a jurist who formerly headed the Public Security and Public Rights Courts of the Supreme Court and taught constitutional rights at university for seven years. Photo :...
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