| Dec 20, 2017 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThis weekend in San Diego and Tijuana, I gathered with hundreds at Friendship Park, which spans both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. We came together for the 24th annual Posada Without Borders, to remember those who lost their lives crossing the border, and to call...
| Nov 8, 2017 | Peace / SecurityBefore the gun lobby or its sycophants in Congress bring out their usual talking points for why we can’t ever have common sense gun reform, I’d like to shoot one of them down. No pun intended. We just saw what happens when a bad guy with a gun is met by a...
| Nov 1, 2017 | Environment / HealthRight now in Washington, D.C., Congress is making decisions that will affect my future and that of my people — the Gwich’in Nation of Alaska and Canada. A critical part of our ancestral homelands, the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — one of the...
| Sep 20, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyWant 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...
| May 3, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyOur president says he wants to run the country like a business. But it turns out running the government isn’t like running a business after all. Trump, for his part, says he’s located the source of the problem: the Constitution. All those checks and...
