Why Roland Burris Matters to Barack Obama, Right Now
Roland could write an epitaph on that vaunted tombstone of his that actually matters. And, Roland, take note: By doing this, you will have saved the lives of millions of American women.
Roland could write an epitaph on that vaunted tombstone of his that actually matters. And, Roland, take note: By doing this, you will have saved the lives of millions of American women.
Nan Aron | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Alliance for Justice has released a new report on judicial selection in the first ten months of the Obama administration.
Nan Aron | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
A change in leadership does not eliminate the need to examine our system and learn from our history, even when -- especially when -- our Department of Justice was corrupted to the point of sanctioning torture.
Josh Horwitz | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, thinks Americans are stockpiling handguns, assault weapons and ammunition because they are going to be "attacked by politicians"?
Kevin Armento | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
Re-branding marriage as a genderless institution such not only widens its scope, but does so in a way that puts it more squarely in line with the two biggest rights struggles of the twentieth century.
Javier Corrales | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
This week, the United States helped bring an end to a serious political crisis in Honduras. A similar crisis is now brewing in Nicaragua, but this time, the United States won't be as lucky.
Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
CORRECTION: An item posted here -- reporting that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if he were on the court in 1954, he would have dissen...
Lance Simmens | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Mr. Vice-President, you and your President had eight full years to chart a direction for this nation. That direction was soundly rejected by the voters in the most recent national election.
Patt Cottingham | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
In 1519 the Spanish Conquistador Hernando Cortez anchored his 11 ships off the Yucatan Peninsula. Thousands of miles of ocean separated him from Spa...
Fred Silberberg | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
Allowing marriage to become the subject of a popular opinion poll, as has taken place in this country, disturbs the very principles upon which this nation was founded.
Gavin Newsom | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
If we're going to put California back on the leading edge, we have to fix our broken system. Please join me in supporting a California Constitutional Convention and help participate in shaping it.
Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living
We've taken the "wow" out of America. It's time to put it back. It's time to be proud to "Live like an American!"
Paula Gordon | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
This and every second Monday of October, an entire First World nation takes the day off to cherish all that is best. Today is Thanksgiving Day. In Canada.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."-- Thomas Jefferson According to President Barack Obama, makin...
Gary Hart | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
The idea that future generations have a stake in carrying out the Constitution's objectives is profound. When we go to war, when we act on climate change, we do so not only for ourselves but also for our posterity.
Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Although the Chicago handgun ban Supreme Court case involves interesting constitutional issues, even if Chicago loses, such a ruling is unlikely to prove a serious threat to state and local gun regulation across-the-board.
James Warren | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media
No matter how much he might disdain the W. presidency, especially when it came to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.
Gary Hart | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
The national security state has become a kind of powerful prison with the president as warden. He has authority over it, but he cannot escape it.
Stephen Herrington | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
We have, for some decades now, been in an era that the framers did not anticipate, in which the reach and influence of money could shape the political landscape like never before.
Dan Manatt | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
To those fighting for health insurance reform suffering the slings and arrows, take heart: if the framers could pull off the Constitution under similar conditions, methinks there may be still be a decent shot for health reform.
Steven G. Brant | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
My waking nightmare was prompted by House Minority Leader John Boehner's appearance on the PBS NewsHour Thursday night. Why is he speaking so positively of "rebellion"?
Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics
A three-judge panel is hearing a case Wednesday morning that challenges Hillary Clinton's "constitutional eligibility" to serve as the government's Se...
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics
If Raymond Clark III was in fact taken away in handcuffs and compelled to go to the police station in connection with the Yale murder case, he was arrested. But in order to be arrested, there must be probable cause.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.
Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago