Peace or Righteousness in the Ukraine?
President Theodore Roosevelt famously stated that, "If given the choice between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness." The United States faces this same choice now in the Ukraine - Peace,...
View ArticleThe FCC Should Let All Competitors Bid on the Spectrum Necessary to Give...
Wireless technology is everywhere these days, especially in the African American community. Most African Americans (56 percent) own smartphones and that rises to a remarkable 85 percent for those aged...
View ArticleDEA Chief Michele Leonhart Should Resign
For months Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Michele Leonhart has openly rebuked the drug policy reform policies of Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama with one...
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Reigniting America's Infrastructure Longpath
The Transcontinental Railroad is associated with some of the most influential figures in American history: Abraham Lincoln, who authorized its construction on July 1, 1862, and Leeland Stanford,...
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Old Drug Warriors Mukasey and Bennet Urge Senate to Scrap Sentencing Reform
Former leaders within the Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Agency, including Michael Mukasey and Bill Bennet, have written a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority...
View ArticleBoko Haram's Ideology Key to Violence
Boko Haram's seizure of more than 270 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria for alleged use as sex slaves or hostages is a major publicity coup that could fuel recruitment for fundamentalist organizations....
View ArticlePalestinian Reconciliation, Netanyahu's Rejectionism, and American Drift
The recent Hamas-PLO agreement is long overdue and either terribly misunderstood or willfully misrepresented by Israeli and American politicians. The PLO-Hamas deal is about bringing back democracy for...
View ArticleSome Scandals Matter More
Over the last six months, sex scandals have intermittently plagued newsstands in France, Turkey and India, all involving high-profile political figures. But none of them should be as consequential to...
View ArticleTo Keep Women Healthy, We Must Protect Them From Gun Violence
Several years ago, I worked at the YWCA Union County, New Jersey, where a woman was murdered on the steps of our shelter door. She was shot 16 times through the back by her former partner, killing her...
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The Israeli-Palestinian Issue Sinks Into the Sunset
Both the New York Times and the Washington Post feature long pieces today on the apparent demise of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. And who can deny it? Following the collapse of Secretary of...
View ArticleNewark, New York and Seattle: Recovering From Decades of Growing Inequality
Since 2009, economists have hinted that the Great Recession was behind us. Some even declared that the American economy had "recovered." But for a majority of every day Americans, this declaration is...
View ArticleTrue Representation: A Proposal to End Gerrymandering
Can you imagine a baseball game where every stadium had its own rules? Now imagine that the rules are not just set by the home team, but that the home team players are also the umpires. This is what is...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Whoever Stole a Sandy Hook Victim's Memorial Sign
You Know Who You Are, I have a five-year-old daughter. She has blond hair that falls in little ringlets and a smile that feels as if it radiates warm sunshine against my soul. She remembers anything...
View ArticleNo Death Is Ordinary: Soma Work Massacre in Turkey
The recent mining tragedy in Turkey has cost hundreds of lives, and the death toll is rising by every hour. Many news outlets keep reporting this incident as an "accident," unwittingly attributing a...
View ArticleJ Street Flap Exposes Jewish Double Standard
There was much outrage and embarrassment across a swath of American Jewish leadership last month, following the vote to reject J Street's bid to join the Conference of Presidents of Major American...
View ArticleCourt Misses Opportunity to Rule on Lethal Injection Secrecy
On Tuesday night, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed Texas' scheduled execution of Robert Campbell. The court based its stay on evidence of Campbell's intellectual disability, which...
View ArticleHome Care Workers Rely on Unions, and We Rely on Them
Union membership ensures the wellbeing of home care workers and those they care for. By endorsing de-unionization, the Wall Street Journal belittles the support caregivers provide our loved ones...
View ArticleReligious Extremists and Societal Indoctrination Still Threaten as National...
It's the event the world will never forget: September 11, 2001. It's a day that forever changed America, and the world, as 2,983 innocent people lost their lives in the largest terrorist attack on...
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