U.S. Should Show Compassion Toward Children
by Randy Jurado Ertll The Obama administration should stop deporting children. Unfortunately, it seems dead set on doing that.On June 20, Vice President Joe Biden met in Guatemala with senior...
View ArticleAlbuqueruque Case Highlights Police Brutality
By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington We need to get a handle on the excessive use of force by the police.The issue has come back into the limelight in a big way in Albuquerque, N.M., after the killing in...
View ArticleLeBron's Return to Cleveland Reminds us of Our Cities' Plight
By David A. Love The decision by NBA player LeBron James to leave the Miami Heat and return home to the Cleveland Cavaliers speaks well about him and holds lessons for us all.Cleveland is not the type...
View ArticleLatin America Shows Progressive Trend
By Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero A new wind is blowing in Latin America. While the Republicans scored major victories in the U.S. midterm elections last week, our neighbors to the south have been moving in a...
View ArticleChild Treaty at 25: More to Be Done
By Jo Becker On Nov. 20 25 years ago, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but we still aren’t doing enough to protect the youngest among us. When I met 14-year-old...
View ArticleThis Holiday Season, We Should Focus on Homelessness
By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington Every year, I volunteer to serve the Thanksgiving meal at a homeless shelter. And every year, I recognize that providing a Thanksgiving feast can’t replace long-term...
View ArticleExecutive Action on Immigrants Will Be Welcome
By Jose Miguel Leyva President Obama should go ahead and issue executive orders providing protection to millions of undocumented individuals by year’s end, as he is expected to do. First, the moral...
View ArticleThis Thanksgiving, Think About Retail Workers
By C. Nicole Mason Thanksgiving ought to be a time for all Americans to relax and enjoy themselves. For salaried workers and for most two-income households, working on Thanksgiving or Christmas is the...
View ArticleFerguson Verdict Again Unearths America's Racial Problems
By David A. Love The failure to indict Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., is not an aberration. Every 28 hours, a black person is killed by the police in the United...
View ArticleDow Chemical Refuses Bhopal Responsiblity Three Decades Later
By Amitabh Pal It’s been 30 years since the Bhopal disaster, but the U.S. company responsible for it has still not made adequate amends. On Dec. 3, 1984, a gas leak at a pesticide plant owned by Union...
View ArticleObama's Immigration Order Saves Families Such as Mine
by Angie Trudell Vasquez When I heard President Obama discuss his executive order on immigration, I thought of my grandmother. Growing up, I did not know that my father’s mother was undocumented. I...
View ArticleFive Reforms Needed to Prevent Another Ferguson
by Brian Gilmore Michael Brown should not have died in vain. We must take specific steps to ensure that this tragedy doesn’t keep repeating itself. Here are five reforms we need to make.read more
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time, the Supreme Court Upheld Civil Rights
by Orson Aguilar Fifty years ago, on Dec. 14, 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected a legal challenge to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, making possible half a century of progress toward...
View ArticleCitizens United Should Be Overturned Five years After
by Brian Gilmore Five years after the Citizens United decision, it is time to overturn it. The U.S. Supreme Court handed down the 5-4 judgment on Jan. 21, 2010. It ruled, in essence, that corporations...
View ArticleObama's Tuition-Free Proposal Could Be Transformative
by Sarah Labadie President Obama’s proposal in his State of the Union address for tuition-free community college could change millions of lives. In my job, I fight to protect the funding for Illinois’...
View ArticleRepublicans Renew Attacks on Immigrants
By Jose Miguel Leyva The GOP is continuing its campaign against immigrants. Republican House members recently attached an amendment to a Homeland Security funding bill threatening President Obama’s...
View ArticleWe Shouldn't Make Felons Out of Families
by Clara Long Contrary to the assertions of overreach by House Republicans, President Obama’s executive actions on immigrants actually don’t go far enough. When he announced in November measures to...
View ArticleObama's Saudi Visit Hypocritical
by Moustafa Bayoumi President Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia to pay tribute to the late King Abdullah shows American hypocrisy.read more
View ArticleMike Huckabee's Targeting of Beyonce is Absurd
by Fred McKissack It seems like Mike Huckabee is running out of ideas. That is why the ex-Arkansas governor and presidential aspirant is aiming at an icon of pop culture. Beyonce, he says and writes,...
View ArticleHow India is Assassinating Gandhi's Legacy
by Arun Gandhi On Jan. 30, 1948, my grandfather Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the great Indian leader and champion of nonviolence, fell to an assassin’s bullets. Indian society has recently faced a...
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