If you can judge a society by the way it treats its children, then New York fails in a big way. In fact, the Empire State should be found guilty of child abuse and neglect.

The New York Times recently reported on the deplorable state of New York's...

As we enter this holiday season, Jews around the world will celebrate Hanukah. And the global Jewish community is a diverse one, a multicultural and multiracial assemblage, by no means monolithic, representing millions of people throughout the world. Jews in China look like other Chinese, while Jews in India resemble...

For the nations that were a part of President Obama’s recent Asian tour, surely this was a new experience for them. For the first time, they greeted and hosted the most powerful person in the world, one of the most brilliant people they’ve ever met.  And for the first time,...

It is an understatement to say the recent massacre at Fort Hood, Texas is a horrible tragedy.  Pundits have said much about the alleged shooter, Army psychiatrist Nidal M. Hasan.  And they will likely say a great deal more about his motives, his state of mind, terrorism, and al-Qaeda.

I...

Often, people will look at a high-profile example of corruption, and conclude that the egregious act is an exception to the rule.  In reality, it might be the tip of the iceberg. 

On October 29, 2009, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania did a wonderful thing when it expunged...

America’s current economic meltdown has crippled many professions, and the legal professional is no exception.  As major law firms are engaging in the wholesale layoffs of lawyers, and freezing hiring for two years, newly minted lawyers must seek employment at department stores and fast food restaurants.  One cannot help but...

When criminals are about to be caught, they try to hide their wrongdoing.  When drug dealers hear the police sirens, they dump the stash in the alley or flush it down the toilet.  When the Nazi officers in the concentration camps heard the allied forces approaching,...

Michael Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story looked and sounded a lot like a huge conspiracy theory.  Too bad all of it was true.

Missing this time around were the legions of corporate shills employed to discredit this film -- much like they did for Moore’s previous film...

There are many opinions on the Mideast conflict, but one thing is certain: the situation in Gaza is a humanitarian and human rights disaster, and it cannot continue. 

Under the Israeli blockade, the following items are not allowed into Gaza: cars, refrigerators, computers, cement, concrete, wood, glass, light bulbs,...

Tracy McGrady, shooting guard for the Houston Rockets, recently changed his jersey number from number 1 to number 3.

The number 3 stands for a three-point program to stop the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, which has already claimed 300,000 lives: peace, protection and punishment. McGrady...

As you probably heard, the Values Voters Summit was recently held in Washington, DC. What exactly is a values voter, and who exactly decides on the definition of a values voter?

In the Orwellian world of conservative-Republican-Christian-fringe doublespeak, the goal is to confuse, obfuscate, distort and deceive. Concepts...

When the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) disrupted the President’s health care address before a joint session of Congress, it was not the first time that a president from Illinois had trouble from a South Carolina lawmaker.  

The first time, of course, was when the Palmetto State became the first...

James Baldwin warned: "It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

These poignant words come to mind when I think about that freak show, that hot mess that has passed for a dialogue on health care reform this past...