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Friday Talking Points -- Brain Damage
Karl Rove successfully manipulated the entire news media this week, so we are going to play along today. Rove's specialty is to take what could be considered a reasonable idea, and then twist it beyond...
View ArticleLet's Connect to Opportunity
Transportation is an essential ingredient for building healthier communities. That's why an equitable and well-functioning transportation system that works for everyone is so important. Transportation...
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The New American Dilemma
Some 70 years ago, the Swedish social scientist Gunnar Myrdal published an incisive monograph on a searing question facing the United States -- he named it "An American Dilemma." Myrdal and his...
View ArticleNew CDC PrEP Guidelines Could Transform HIV Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took a major step toward transforming HIV prevention in the U.S. May 14 by recommending that health-care providers consider prescribing pre-exposure...
View ArticleThe Importance of Vision
A few days ago, I spent an afternoon with members of the Syrian opposition delegation visiting Washington. They briefed me on their many meetings with the Obama administration (including a lengthy...
View ArticleProgress and Challenges 60 Years After Brown v. Board
Anniversaries that commemorate milestones in our nation's history give us the opportunity to reflect and also to look ahead. For me, this week provides such a moment, as we mark the 60th anniversary of...
View ArticleThe One Percent
Today, I am commemorating Armed Forces Day inside Pennsylvania's Graterford Penitentiary with the veterans our nation left behind. It's the 25th anniversary of the prison's Vietnam Veterans Chapter,...
View ArticleOn Brown's Birthday, A Return to the Table of Brotherhood
Today we mark the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board Education -- the seminal Supreme Court decision striking down "separate but equal" in America's public schools. Fast-forward six decades, and the...
View Article60 Years After Brown v. Board, America's School Boards Call for Vigilance
In the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a timeless and transformative message: All students deserve a great public education; separate systems are not equal....
View ArticleThe Minimum Wage Isn't Just a Wage: It's a Standard
I've been doing a bit of historical research for a minimum wage paper and keep stumbling on these interesting and compelling ideas from the framers of that and similar policies (h/t: GL). Arguments...
View ArticleRight-Wing Politics Is Not Just Pro-Business... It Is, Itself, a Big Business
One cannot understand right-wing politics without realizing it is primarily a profit-making enterprise. And, like other profit-maximizing organizations, it does whatever is necessary to drive its own...
View Article10,000 Young Toddlers Are on Stimulant Drugs for ADHD
How crazy is it to drug babies? It was shocking enough to discover that 20 percent of teenage boys get labelled as having ADHD, and 10 percent are on stimulant medications for it; that 11 percent of...
View ArticleUnderstanding Brown v. Board of Education
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, a case which is known around the world, even if it remains somewhat poorly understood. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of...
View ArticleThe Problem of Health Inequity Unites Us All
The science that informs medicine -- including the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease -- routinely fails to consider the critical impact of sex and gender. These omissions exist at the same...
View ArticleWhat Made America Famous
Many Americans believe that the top one percent is responsible for the rising tide of inequality in America, which is swamping and drowning the other 99 percent. Professor Emmanuel Saez of the...
View ArticleSunday Roundup
This week, Karl Rove suggested that Hillary Clinton might have suffered brain damage in 2012 when she was hospitalized after a fall that left her with a concussion. "Please assure Dr. Rove she's 100...
View ArticleSouthern Whites, Non-Southern Whites, Racism, and Obama
• How important was racism in questions about Barack Obama's religion and birthplace during the 2012 election? • Was it racial resentment or old-fashioned racial prejudice? • Were southern whites more...
View ArticleCorporate Power Must Be Tamed
Seven years into an economic crisis that was born in America, but has left structural damage to the global economy and the global workforce, more than one in two working families in 14 countries that...
View ArticleObama's 'Passive' Foreign Policy Is a Welcome Change
I don't like everything about President Obama's foreign policy. I particularly do not like his policy on Israel and the Palestinians which alternates between being written by AIPAC and, like right now,...
View ArticleKnown Knowns
There is a certain ironic symmetry in the resignation of General Eric Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs -- the final act of a personal tragedy, perhaps not Shakespearean but pathetic...
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