Sidelining Egyptian Women after the Uprising

A century ago, more than a million people marched in streets across Europe on the first International Women’s Day. They called for an end to discrimination and for women to have the same rights as men to work, vote, and shape their countries’ futures. A...
Moving Past the Jobless Recovery

Moving Past the Jobless Recovery

Most of the 15 million unemployed Americans want to be back at work. What Americans need first and foremost is to be able to go to work and bring home a paycheck. Two more of my friends just lost their jobs. I have two brothers-in-law who are out of work. They...

The Road to Budget Sanity

The budget wars have begun. Duck! President Obama delivered the first salvo by presenting his $3.5 trillion proposal for the 2012 fiscal year to Congress in a telephone book-sized document. It was very Barack–measured and balanced. It cut a little here, put on a...

Surprise: Guess Who Wants Gun Control?

Let’s take a little trip to Irony, Arizona. It’s not a town, but a concept. Though the state’s political leaders don’t seem at all familiar with it. Claiming to represent the will of the people, they’ve enacted the most free-wheeling gun...