Heather Robinson

Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV), the liberal Democratic Senate candidate trying to unseat Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) in November, is a gung-ho supporter of labor unions which highlights her tight relationship with Big Labor in her fights for office.

In 2006, for instance, Berkley spoke at a rally...

Six-term incumbent Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar is facing off in a close primary race May 8 against challenger Richard Mourdock, the state treasurer, who is, according to one news site "running to Lugar's right with tea-party backing."

Mourdock may have an uphill battle in trying to "out-conservative"...

So, as this primary election season goes on and on, I still haven't found The One. Seasons have changed, I've switched to a new therapist and while I have no problem attracting candidates for the position, the search continues. My mother always told me he would come along, and that...

Ah, the eternal question: What do women really want? (Hint: It's not a vacuum cleaner or thigh master.) Here are twelve things we actually do care about. Feel free to take notes!

1. Henry Kissinger had it wrong -- power can be sexy, but the greatest aphrodisiac is attentiveness.

2....

Last Tuesday marked the first Republican victory in nearly one hundred years in New York's 9th Congressional district, a Jewish and Italian stronghold. Republican Robert Turner's victory in winning the seat encompassing Brooklyn and Queens and formerly held by Anthony Weiner has led many to speculate that Jewish voters sent...

Riding by car or bus last Fourth of July weekend, you may have enjoyed the green hills and valleys, the rust-colored canyons or wheat-covered plains rolling past your window.

If you've admired the natural...

A couple thoughts on last week's controversy in which Jon Stewart mocked Herman Cain, a black conservative candidate for the GOP nomination. The Los Angeles Times incorrectly claims in this blog post that Cain, in reaction to Stewart's bit, called Stewart a racist. Unless I am mistaken, I...

Former Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi contacted me last Friday to report that major protests are taking place across Iraq. While there have been some news reports, Alusi says the Iraqi government has banned videotaping and most reporting on the protests--and that journalists and protestors have been killed by government forces.

A wise man once told me, "People get the government they deserve." At the time, I thought this assessment was overly harsh. After all, what can unarmed civilians do when they are under the control of a dictator? I still believe it is a sweeping statement, but perhaps it contains...

In 2004, Dan O'Shea, a Navy SEAL officer and commander in the U.S. Naval Reserves, served as Coordinator of the Hostage Working Group (HWG) in Baghdad.

Formed at the height of the Iraqi insurgency when a hostage campaign targeting foreigners averaged more than 40 kidnappings per month, the HWG oversaw...

By Heather Robinson and Jennifer Ginsberg, MSW

It is becoming increasingly clear that the killing spree of Jared Loughner, who claimed the lives of six and injured 14, including beloved Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was not fueled by political ideology; rather, it was the result of severe, chronic, and untreated...

Fighting in Southern Sudan's disputed Abyei region claimed the lives of more than 30 people over the weekend, but voting that will allow the country's Southerners - mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native religions - to separate from the Arab Muslim North if they choose, proceeded apace. And...

Today, Sunday January 9th, the people of Southern Sudan will have the chance to vote for independence. Americans of all persuasions should support the democratic process of this long-anticipated vote.

The product of a 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between Sudan's mostly Muslim North and its mostly Christian South,...

German activists are raising an outcry over what they characterize as a growing "offensive of promoting German-Iran relations" on the part of German politicians and businesspeople that they believe is undercutting hard-won gains in the cooperative EU and U.S. effort to isolate Iran's government via sanctions.

Members of Stop...

Disappointing news this Thanksgiving Day, as human rights activist Simon Deng received an update that the Sudan Peace and Stability Act, sponsored by Senator John Kerry, is "on hold." Kerry's office did not share the reason.

"We have no idea regarding Kerry and the bill. It was supposed to be...

Today human rights activist and escaped slave Simon Deng finished an historic barefoot walk to each of the 535 offices of the U.S. Congress in an appeal to U.S. legislators to support John Kerry's Sudan Peace and Stability Act and to uphold the outcome...

Rhetorical sparks flew in Manhattan yesterday as Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard University, and Scott Horton, contributing editor of Harper's magazine, sparred on the subject of Lawfare, or the alleged systematic use of law as a weapon of war against Western liberal democracies. The debate, which...

Sajjad Ghaderzah, 22, the son of Sakineh Ashtiani, an Iranian woman the regime has sentenced to death by stoning, has been "severely tortured" and remains jailed, according to the International Committee Against Stoning (ICAS).

Ashtiani's attorney, Houtan Kian, has also been tortured, according to the ICAS.

Kian, Ghaderzah,...

Reprinted from The Washington Examiner

Oil and water don't usually mix, but a native son of the Middle East has a suggestion for President Obama on how to combine these elements to promote peace in the region.

Mithal al-Alusi, a former Iraqi...

Escaped slave and human rights champion Simon Deng arrived in Washington D.C. today, leading a group of several dozen determined activists who walked with him 300 miles from the United Nations in New York to the Capitol building to raise awareness about a planned January 11, 2011 referendum to grant...