Op-Ed

Aug. 11, 2016 – We assume every American adult has a basic right: to vote. But state legislators in recent years have created barriers that limit that right. They have restricted the forms of ID voters must provide, eliminated same-day registration, and narrowed time periods for voting —  mainly affecting people of color. Now the […]

Aug. 11, 2016 – Why is Donald Trump pandering so hard to “the Second Amendment people”? Possibly because the National Rifle Association is the biggest financial backer of his campaign. The NRA has spent $6 million in TV ads on behalf of the Republican presidential candidate, which is $6 million more than the Trump campaign […]

Aug. 11, 2016 – The following is a statement from David Rocah, Senior Staff Attorney for the ACLU of Maryland: The Department of Justice’s findings on the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) document in devastating detail what Baltimoreans have decried for years: Baltimore’s Black residents are racially-profiled, harassed, stopped, searched, arrested, and assaulted by police, in […]

Aug. 11, 2016 – I’m writing to you because your dad is not well. Every day he continues his spiral downward – and after his call for gun owners to commit acts of violence against Mrs. Clinton, it is clear he needs help, serious help. His comments and behavior have become more and more bizarre […]

August 8, 2016 – For the fourth time this summer, Donald Trump is going to find his hate walled in yet again. Designers David Haggerty and James Cazzoli are raising $60,000 in order to build a 200-foot sandbag “wall” at West 59th Street and the Avenue of the Americas, just blocks from Trump Tower and […]

Aug. 5, 2016 – On June 16, 2015 Donald Trump sauntered out to the lobby of his Manhattan Tower, declared he was running for president and proceeded to slander Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers. The casualties of Trump’s unabashed hate speech were the millions of hard-working undocumented immigrants who aspire to come out […]

Aug. 2, 2016 – Letta Tayler is Senior Researcher, Terrorism/Counterterrorism, Human Rights Watch France’s latest renewal of its emergency law has made few headlines abroad—except perhaps in Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, fresh from passing his own sweeping state of emergency, may have relished watching the champion of liberté, égalité, and fraternité once again suspend rights in the name […]

Aug. 3, 2016 – It’s summer vacation time and gasoline is quasi-cheap. So why not pile the family into the mini-van and pay a visit to the historic Budweiser Statue of Liberty, or motor out west in your Camry to Toyota’s Yellowstone National Park? That’s right, our thoroughly corporatized Congress mandated a new policy last […]

August 2, 2016 – Khizr and Ghazala Khan appeared at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week to honor their son Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004 while serving in the U.S. Army. The controversy that followed could not have been predicted with the Republican candidate attacking the Khan’s who […]

July 29, 2016 – During the last two weeks, two starkly different visions of America were on display at the Republican and Democratic conventions. While Donald Trump and Republicans up and down the ballot continued to attack and demean Latinos and immigrants, immigration policy reforms were featured as a top priority for Democrats. These are our […]

July 29, 2016 – After a campaign lasting more than a year and taking in all 50 states, Hillary Rodham Clinton has delivered a speech that will go down in history. As the first woman to secure a major party’s nomination for president of the United States, her address to the Democratic National Convention was […]

July 24, 2016 – John Baick is a professor of history at Western New England University in Springfield, Mass. The tone and volume of our political culture discourse give Americans insight into the norms of our society, a reflection of our times. If one were to put up a mirror to our political landscape today, […]