GOP Leaders Defend Foreign Aid Cuts In Aftermath Of Japan Crisis
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As long as the economy is rigged to redistribute income upward, tax and transfer policies designed to help the middle class and poor will inevitably fail. This is a lesson that needs to be taken to heart fast.
Since I was a kid, four dreams have played on a loop in my head, all of them bad. One dream has stuck with me through thin and thick. Tidal wave.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder now wants to impose "financial martial law" upon struggling communities in the form of "financial managers" that would have the power to abrogate contracts at will and supercede the democratic process.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was forced to resign for his frank comments about the treatment of Bradley Manning. The question is, why would the administration do something so "ridiculous, counterproductive, and stupid"?
When it comes to oil trading, not to mention speculation in the stock and other financial markets, action has largely moved to the screen, which is ruled by speculators who remain, as ever, bloodthirsty.
In all the footage of people being saved, I haven't seen one mega-bank rescue anyone. I saw help from a lot of volunteers, firemen, rescue workers, doctors, nurses, etc. But not one bank.
European governments are publicly reconsidering their nuclear power plans after a devastating earthquake and tsunami caused several Japanese reactors to fail. Why aren't American politicians doing the same?
Warner Brothers giving Sheen the boot says that what matters about our celebrities isn't their acting ability, but their personal lives. We need to start expecting less from our celebrities, and more from ourselves.
The NFL labor negotiations lacked any sense of trust or personal relationship. They left both sides feeling that this was never really a negotiation at all. And the sneering from both sides continues.
It's not surprising that key sectors in the West are pushing for a "safe" Turkish model for Egypt. But there are stark differences between Turkey's road to a military-free democracy and the littered path ahead for Egypt's nascent political parties.
Why not force Google to act more competitively? Antitrust restrictions will likely make Google products better and allow new competing products a better chance to reach consumers -- plain and simple.
The case of Alaskan Airlines 241 reminds us that while tefillin are not a security threat, ignorance is. It's troubling when airline personnel have no idea how to distinguish between a genuine threat and an unusual practice.
My favorite part of the grey-hair trend is that it demonstrates how people are thinking out of the box. This kind of approach often leads us to stumble onto a completely new way of looking at or thinking about beauty.
Real-time social media provides a "Now Lens" for viewing the world second by second. Finally, the digital fire hose of people's opinions, dreams, hopes and anxieties, are being unleashed and shared worldwide, anytime, anywhere.
For those not used to working in disasters, the first week is chaotic. It is not the time for architects to show up to rebuild. People are trying to find their loved ones, not think about what their lives will look like in 10 years.
No one can anticipate or control the wrath of Mother Nature or political turmoil on the other side of the planet. But it is no less true for being a cliché that crises do present opportunities -- and Japan is no different.
By his negative example, Governor Scott Walker has reminded us about the rights and obligations of citizenship and about the importance of standing up for the rights of children and workers to sustain a functioning democracy.
The same bank executives who donated to Scott Walker and have helped him avoid the press with their underground tunnel also ran one of the most conspicuous dumping sites for toxic financial waste in the country.
The revolutionary wave in the Arab world is a stroke of good fortune, creating circumstances wherein we can restore our standing as the "good guys." Obama and his minions seem to have no awareness of this whatsoever.
After the drubbing that the Democrats took last November, you would think that it might occur to the White House that it makes sense to be more clearly aligned with the interests of consumers. But that is still contested terrain.
The stampede to a no-fly zone in Libya doesn't solve the core underlying issues that it isn't efficacious, could rob protesters of their own narrative and even of their political legitimacy, and doesn't give them the tools they really need to win.
Daniel Hernandez's Down and Delirious in Mexico City charts the progress of a Chicano from San Diego who is Mexican enough to merit a passport. He determines to head south to reclaim his heritage.
We need our president to act on behalf of all Americans to counter and bring to heel the massive influence, lobbying power and money of the oiligopoly. The president does not seem to understand what is happening at the gas pump.
Few figures in the second half of the 20th century have been as pivotal as Mikhail Gorbachev was. He took unprecedented steps within the Soviet structure and toward the U.S. that made the end of the Cold War possible.
Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper are on TV practically 24/7, but they are not my leader. Please, Mr. President. Talk to us.
