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Blog Post Archive
Hoyt Hilsman: The Republicans' Obama Problem
By attacking Obama, the Republicans are throwing red meat to their base, which is an increasingly small and extreme group of right-wingers. The danger of tossing red meat to a tiger is that it becomes even more aggressive.
Marian Wright Edelman: How Children Transformed America
“Daddy,” the boy said, “I don't want to disobey you, but I have made my pledge. If you try to keep me home, I will...
Joel Rubin: Syria, Iran and the Red Lines Trap
President Obama should stick to his red line policy toward Syria and avoid advancing a red line policy toward Iran that will tie his hands. That may frustrate his domestic critics, but it makes America's adversaries nervous. And this is exactly where we should want our country's foreign policy to be.
Jim Worth: In Our Sights
Until we become smart enough to recognize what other civilized countries have found -- that stricter gun control saves lives -- we're destined to repeat the tragedies of Newtown, Aurora, Tucson, and Virginia Tech again and again and again.
Elisabeth MacNamara: Celebrating the NVRA: 20 Years of Increasing Access to the Vote
Monday, May 20, marks the 20th anniversary of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), the monumental legislation that protects and enhances the ability of Americans...
Martha Burk: College Debt Has a Female Face
Maybe it's time for a '60s-style student uprising -- but this time instead of occupying college hallways, they ought to occupy the halls of a Congress that favors big banks over struggling students.
Peter M. Shane: The NLRB, the IRS, and the Cancer of Senate Obstructionism
What we are witnessing today in depressing, even contemptible form is a GOP-led congressional subversion of two of the most elementary norms on which our government rests.
David A. Love: Florida's Timely Justice Act Is Neither Timely Nor Justice
The bill -- passed by the Florida legislature and now awaiting the signature of Governor Rick Scott -- would expedite the death penalty process in the Sunshine state.
Aiko Stevenson: Obama 2.0: Breaking the Impasse
Within the first quarter of his final term, Barack Obama has chalked up two frustrating defeats: the sting of across the board budget cuts, followed by the bite of failed gun sales reform. And, now the specter of a triple faced scandal threatens to engulf his presidency.
Jennifer Harvey: Repentance Politics, Repentance Theology
We seem to be maybe, finally, oh so slowly going through a sea change on lesbian and gay rights. Cultural acceptance -- incomplete still, of course -- came first, and it seems like maybe political and religious acceptance may follow...
Philip Radford: An Open Letter to the Congressional Committee Investigating Politically-Motivated IRS Audits
Greenpeace is offering to testify about being the target of politically motivated audits in 2004, because regardless of which party holds power, these abuses are egregious and must stop.
Christopher H. Schroeder: Why the Justice Department May Be Right
Critics of the Justice Dept.'s subpoena of AP telephone records have shamelessly mischaracterized the Dept.'s actions and the purposes for them. Any interference with the free press merits close scrutiny, but that scrutiny needs to consider just what the Dept. actually has done and why.
William E. White: Our Unethical Republic
Obedience to the law is not enough. Americans demand legal and ethical behavior from themselves and their fellow citizens.
Tom Frieden, MD, MPH: Supporting Children's Mental Health
Research has shown us that intervening early at the individual, family, and community level can delay or prevent the on-set of mental and substance use disorders. We also know that these can be treated, and individuals with these conditions can lead healthy productive lives.
Heather Roff: Frost's Liberal Case for Drones or Wishful Thinking?
If this were a human soldier, with all of his moral failings, we'd point the finger at him and prosecute him. We'd blame him. But how do you blame a machine?
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Bringing Justice To Victims Of Sexual Assault In The Military
I was outraged by the news earlier this week that the coordinator of the Army's program to prevent sexual assault at Fort Hood in Texas...
Christopher Bergin: Scandal, Scandal, Scandal
To paraphrase John Wayne in McClintock: Now, let's all calm down. In Washington, they throw the word scandal around with such abandon it's hard to...
Sam Dorison: Guantanamo in Context
The average detainee at Guantánamo has been held there for over nine years. Nine years ago Barack Obama was serving his first term as Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee in the Illinois Senate.
Wendy N. Powell: The Tax Man Targeting our Right to Diversity of Thought
We all have skin in this game to maintain our liberties. It is an ironic turn of events that the very issue of inappropriate scrutiny of our liberties is now the focus of the IRS by the public, media, elected officials; even the ACLU has raised its head.
Richard Brodsky: Impeaching Obama: Serial Madness In Washington
The litany of Congressional Republican nuttiness in the past twenty years is impressive. Think back on assertions that Hilary Clinton was involved in murdering Vince...