Op-Ed

NEW YORK September 24, 2017 – President Trump tonight issued a third version of his Muslim ban. Like the previous version, this ban blocks travel to the United States from six predominantly Muslim countries. The newest ban also bars North Koreans and Venezuelan government officials. Unlike the previous versions, this ban is of indefinite duration. The American […]

Sept. 22, 2017 –  In an important ruling for dogs and for the legal principle that states and local governments have a critical role in protecting animals from cruelty and mistreatment, a federal appeals court today upheld Chicago’s law requiring pet stores that sell dogs, cats, and rabbits to obtain them from an animal shelter or rescue […]

Sept. 20, 2017 – Jimmy responds to Senator Bill Cassidy, Senator Lindsey Graham, Governor Chris Christie, and Brian Kilmeade after they reacted to his monologue about the #GrahamCassidy health care bill. Jimmy Kimmel on Bill Cassidy’s Health “Care” Bill https://youtu.be/cOlibbx5sx0 SUBSCRIBE to get the latest #KIMMEL: http://bit.ly/JKLSubscribe Watch Mean Tweets: http://bit.ly/KimmelMT10

Sept. 20, 2017 – This summer, Los Angeles officials reached a deal with the International Olympic Committee to host the 2028 Olympic Summer Games. For its trouble, the city hopes to generate hundreds of millions in savings and additional revenues. However, over the past few decades, world sporting events have come with a huge price […]

Sept 20, 2017 – What’s the largest personal stake a U.S. president has ever had in legislation he signed into law? Whatever it was, it’ll be dwarfed by what Donald Trump’s signature will be worth — to himself — if Congress passes his proposed tax plan and puts it on his desk. If that happens, […]

Sept. 20, 2017 – Want good quality, lower-cost health care for your family. And — what the heck, let’s think big here — for every man, woman, and child in our society? Here’s how we can finally get Congress to pass such a program. Step One: Take away every dime of the multimillion-dollar government subsidy […]

The unexpected appearance of former White House press secretary Sean Spicer at the Emmys this past Sunday first elicited gasps of shock, then titters and even laughs, and then, especially on Twitter and in media post-mortems, cries of outrage. Take a look It all goes to show how much Donald Trump has not only eviscerated […]

Sept. 20, 2017 – You would have thought that after being battered by two devastating hurricanes in recent weeks, which experts believe were fuelled by warmer seas caused by climate change, even the most die-hard climate denier would think again. But you would be wrong. You would have thought that as the cost of rebuilding […]

Sept. 19, 2017 – Cynthia M. Wong is Senior Researcher, Internet and Human Rights In July 2016, the United States Department of Justice released a legislative proposal that could vastly increase surveillance by other governments with the direct assistance of Silicon Valley. The unprecedented proposal would allow certain governments to demand the contents of Internet communications […]

Sept. 19, 2017 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on May 17 announced the death of 58-year-old Atulkumar Babubhai Patel in immigration detention in Georgia. This announcement came just two days after 27-year-old Jean Jimenez-Joseph was found lifeless in his detention cell, following 19 days in solitary confinement at the Stewart Detention Center. Six other women and men have […]

September 18, 2017 – Conservatives like to talk about virtues. In 1993 William Bennet’s The Book of Virtues appeared five years after the end of his stint as Ronald Reagan’s secretary of education. In 1994 historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, of the conservative Kristol family, praised the virtues of the Victorians in her book The De-Moralization of […]

Sept. 18, 2017 – White House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, former president of Goldman Sachs, said recently that “only morons pay the estate tax.” I’m reminded of Donald Trump’s comment that he didn’t pay federal income taxes because he was “smart.” And billionaire Leona Helmsley’s “only the little people pay taxes.” What Cohn […]

Sept. 13, 2017 – For the second time in less than two months, the US Justice Department (DOJ) has bent over backward to undermine LGBT rights in pending lawsuits. In July, the DOJ unexpectedly filed an amicus brief in Zarda v. Altitude Express, arguing that LGBT people are not protected from workplace discrimination under federal law. The case […]

Stephen Tuffnell, University of Oxford September 14, 2017 – Romania’s prime minister, Mihai Tudose, recently raised the prospect of reopening the country’s huge Roșia Montană goldfield. The area had been mined from Roman times until the last state-run operation closed in 2006. An application by a previous government to make the area a UNESCO world […]

Sept. 13, 2017 – Two weeks ago, President Trump issued an executive order that gave a push to local police militarization. Trump’s action rescinded an Obama-era policymeant to provide greater transparency and oversight around the Department of Defense 1033 program and other federal resources that provide military weapons to local police. Contrary to what Attorney General Jeff Sessions said last month […]

Sept. 13, 2017 – Donald Trump loves it when crowds at his raucous right-wing rallies stand and chant in red-faced fury: “Build that wall! Build that wall!” So he keeps fanning their fire by promising to wall off Mexico with a multibillion-dollar “big, beautiful” barrier on the border. “We must have THE WALL,” he tweeted in […]

Sept. 13, 2017 –  Senator Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Jeff Merkley, are introducing a Medicare For All bill in the Senate. It’s a model for where this nation needs to be headed. Some background: American spending on health care per person is more than twice the average in the world’s 35 advanced […]

Sept. 12, 2017 – Brian Tashman is Political Researcher and Strategist, ACLU Kris Kobach is getting desperate. In a column last week for Breitbart, the Kansas Secretary of State declared that voter fraud tipped the scales in the election last year in New Hampshire. The evidence? Anyone who registered to vote on Election Day with another state’s […]

Sept. 9, 2017 – It’s easy to get caught up in the deeply flawed character of Donald Trump. We also need to recognize the policy catastrophe of his presidency. Compare the things he’s been focusing on with the real problems facing this country. This past week, for example, Trump ordered an end to the Obama-era executive […]

OXFORD, Sept. 11, 2017 -Stefan Dercon is Chief Economist at DFID, Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University and co-author, with Daniel Clarke, of “Dull Disasters: how planning ahead will make a difference”, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press Hurricanes and an earthquake have caused havoc across the Caribbean […]