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What UKIP Must Learn from the American Liberty Movement
Of all of their political parties that most Brits have heard of, only UKIP - the United Kingdom Independent Party - calls itself "libertarian". Being only two decades old, UKIP - now polling 38% for...
View ArticleThe UAE's Preservation of the Status Quo
Co-written with Sufyan Bin Uzayr Since the revolutions that swept across the Middle East in 2011, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government has arrested dozens of Emirati and Egyptian nationals...
View ArticleMaking the Road in New York: A Model for Work-Family Policy Change
In New York City this week, just one day after Mother's Day, working families and activists gathered to discuss their efforts to really value mothers -- through policies that reflect the realities of...
View Article20 Years Later, Criticisms of NAFTA Often Miss the Point (Pt. I)
At my liberal arts college, any mention of NAFTA in a class or group discussion was accompanied with a roomful of somber head shaking. In our view, NAFTA was the corporate-driven vehicle that favored...
View ArticleThe Poverty-Resources Gap: Rich Hill and the Unique Needs of Rural Schools
It is getting harder and harder to ignore the extent and growth of American poverty, especially among children. And it's getting harder to deny poverty's impact on those children's educational...
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Will Obama Relent on Syrian Anti-Aircraft Weapons?
Ahmed al-Jarba, the president of the Syrian National Coalition, and Brig. Gen. Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir, the top man of the opposition Supreme Military Council, are currently engaged in the most important...
View Article'Dr. Rove' Has Inoculated Hillary Clinton Against Right-Wing Attacks
Senor Urgarti: You despise me, don't you Rick? Monsieur Rick: If I ever gave you a moment's thought, I suppose I would. Casablanca, 1943 Just as the disastrous Bush administration that Karl Rove...
View ArticleLet's Make HPV Vaccination a Public Health Priority
Two distinct but very different emotions often dominate our minds and our discussions surrounding cancer: fear and hope. As a cancer survivor, I have known fear. You can process very few emotions other...
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The Nigerian Government Should Be Held Accountable for Its Failure to Act
Today I stand with my friends in Nigeria. Three weeks have passed since nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. The world watches in horror as...
View ArticleHow USDA Rubber-Stamps 'Humane' and 'Sustainable' Food Claims
When a shopper spends their hard-earned money on meat that is labeled "humanely raised" or "sustainably farmed," it's not unreasonable for them to assume that someone has validated the truthfulness of...
View ArticleA Crisis of Faith in America
"The opposite of faith is not doubt, it is certainty." Though the origin of this quote is uncertain, there is no doubt in its application to today's political interactions and conversations. The reason...
View ArticleThe NRA Is Going to Have a Hard Time Reaching Out to Millennials
Now that the NRA has figured out that the next generation of consumers may not be as interested in buying guns as previous generations, they have started their own television and Internet network, NRA...
View ArticleCitizenship Games
We Americans view U.S. citizenship as almost holy -- as holy as any secular status could be. The Supreme Court described the national sentiment in the 1967 case Afroyim v. Rusk: Our "citizenry is the...
View ArticleCyberphysical Democracy: Online Platforms and Offline Action
"The more digital the world becomes, the more appetite people have for real things." (Alan Rusbriger of The Guardian, NY Times Magazine interview, March 7, 2014) New platforms for civic engagement are...
View ArticleFollowing the Clintons, the Bidens Cash in on Ukraine
Perhaps Hunter Biden doesn't get his marching orders from the White House, nor does he carry enough swag to influence U.S.-Ukrainian relations. None of this will matter as the White House suffered...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Advocate Speaks Anonymously About the Upcoming FCC Vote on a...
He asked me to call him Colin Gallagher. Posting as ABISprotocol on github, he has many names and many handles among many online platforms, but today it's just Colin. And he, along with thousands of...
View ArticleMemo to Netanyahu: Read ADL Survey, and Stop Equating Israel Criticism With...
The ADL's Anti-Semitism Survey explodes the Myth that Criticism of Israel is motivated by anti-Semitism, particularly in Western Europe. Israel's right-wing politicians would do well to let these facts...
View ArticleNigeria's Kidnapped Girls Are Like Canaries in a Coal Mine
The news from Nigeria about the Boko Haram attack on a girls' school in Chibok involves much more than some 276 girls and their families: It is a manifestation of a long-standing and pervasive crisis...
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Environmental Justice and the "Science" of Denial
Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you learn that you cannot eat money. -- Cree Proverb...
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