The task force report on the November 18th UC Davis pepper spray incident took some surprisingly strong swipes at the university’s chain of command, attacking decision-making and communications at the level of the police’s and the school’s leaders.

Tax season is upon us again. Here are a few tips to perhaps make things easier, plus a few things about the IRS that may surprise you.

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This nasty period of high unemployment that has plagued the U.S. economy since 2009 will not come to an end until policymakers begin to think more economically.

As a result of the viral video on electoral reform out of my briefing to the Occupy NYC working group on electoral reform, a number of stakeholders got in touch with me.  Others I have identified via searches for major civil society elements with defined electoral reform programs.

The traditional partisan debate over whether to raise or cut taxes-- especially for high-income earners-- ignores an independent solution that should at least be tolerable to both sides: make the high-income earners-- especially corporations-- pay their taxes in the first place.

The primary season is more than half over, and with former-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney all but assured the nomination of the Republican Party (especially now that former-Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum has suspended his campaign), all I eyes have now turned to the general election though that doesn't officially start until September after both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions have been held.  But I wanted to look back at a few things that have been on my mind about this primary season...

In a campaign speech today, Rick Santorum announced that he is dropping out of the Republican race for president: