Having just gotten back from a trip abroad where the news was dominated by the story of a politician facing severe consequences for his sexual misconduct, I opened up the pages of the American news to find... well, pretty much the same thing.
Having just gotten back from a trip abroad where the news was dominated by the story of a politician facing severe consequences for his sexual misconduct, I opened up the pages of the American news to find... well, pretty much the same thing.
It is more important than ever for Americans, particularly Americans of Iranian descent, to evaluate the unintended impact the Iran sanctions coming out of Congress are having here in the U.S.
While Stan Druckenmiller is one of the nation's largest philanthropists, he has made billions off of shorting currencies. Will his next bet be against the dollar?
If our military is to be involved in an escalation in Libya, then Congress must exercise its Constitutional authority and approve or disapprove of the President's proposal.
With the loss of equal pay for women amounting to approximately $11,000 in lost income per year, the sagging economy is affected. If we equalize pay, a woman could earn tens of thousands of dollars more.
In this day of trillions of dollars in national debt, should any government agency be given free reign to spend as it sees fit, without any oversight ...
It's taken me three weeks, 6,000 miles, and Mark Zuckerberg, to finally get what Benjamin Netanyahu was telling Barack Obama -- and the world -- in Washington those six days in May.
I've had enough of watching my colleagues play politics with our kids' futures. I'm putting together a list of education reforms -- real reforms -- to promote in Congress, and I want your help.
An ironic New York statue might well now stand as an adequate symbol for Weiner's situation over the last week: A larger-than-life, scantily clad male public figure, trying to keep down the images of vice represented by multiple women.
Under a "first to file" system, individual and independent small inventors don't stand a chance of winning the race to the patent office against large corporations.
Burt Bottomline knows banking. And why shouldn't he? Burt Bottomline has been in banking -- Big Banking -- for years. He's one of Big Banking's big...
The Republican-controlled House is hell-bent on crafting the perfect predator state, one that can wage war without the least need to entertain doubt or acknowledge conscience.
When one congressman lies to the public, he makes all of us assume that every other congressman is a liar as well.
The main thing I draw from the Anthony Weiner incident is that the greater shame is in our puerile culture and how the media feeds the frenzy. On its own face their actions are ludicrous and the well-paid media honchos should be equally ashamed.
In the winter of 2001-2002, I spent hundreds of hours reading transcripts and reviewing video clips of the men and women who raced towards the sounds ...
Consider three Americans: a gay businessman who wants to lower taxes; a scientist who teaches evolution but opposes amnesty for the illegal; an agnost...
I was having lunch at home yesterday as news broke on CNN that Congressman Anthony Weiner was finally admitting that he had lied about sending a photo...
With rare exceptions, those in control of the world's monetary/economic agenda and the theories supporting it have helped bring the world to its knees. Shouldn't they and their theories be held accountable?
The American poet John Greenleaf Whitter had some wise words that apply to everyone who tweets first and thinks afterwards: "For of all sad words of t...
This country often feels utterly incapable of political conversation; it's an axiom of American civility, after all, "no politics or religion at the dinner table," right?
We keep falling for it, don't we? As a spate of disillusioned facebook and twitter posts from the past 24 hours spells out, once again plenty of peop...