In Ronald Reagan's first year in office (1981), he faced the enormous task of handling two of the greatest refugee crises our government has ever faced.
The 1980 Mariel boatlift brought almost 125,000 Cuban refugees to the United States, while continued pressures of the Indochina refugee crisis were continuing from America's departure from Vietnam and the fall of Saigon in 1975 -- as well as the Khmer Rouge genocides in Cambodia.
Climate change is real and is caused by humans.
To many, this statement will seem partisan -- a liberal viewpoint. It does not have to be nor should it be, however.
Environmental issues as of late have become some of the most bitter, partisan contests of the day. Yet there was a time when this was not so, when environmental policy enjoyed widespread support from both parties.
Following the suspected terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, two senators have introduced a bill that privacy advocates could see as a means of enhancing surveillance powers that were reformed earlier this year.
Source: Steve Bousquet, Miami Herald
My Take: A well-written look at today’s Florida voters, why they are registering independent--particularly first-time voters, and how issues vs. politics affects this pattern.
This week I had the opportunity to present a journal article at a symposium on social responsibility.
While topics wildly varied, my own focused on the historical perspectives of capitalism -- and how many of the uglier aspects of capitalism have been with us since the very beginning.
Dissident Politics advocates a set of three political principles or morals that foster objectivity in politics. The proposal comes despite the innate intuitive-subjective nature of human cognition and American politics.
Two core premises underpin the argument. The first is that modern politics is subjective and ineffective because the two-party system understands the intuitive aspect of human behavior and relentlessly exploits that biology to its own advantage, usually at the expense of the public interest.
The Washington Post reported yesterday that there have been 355 mass shootings so far in 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1gXZZ_qxjE
You might have seen the headlines this week—the NSA is no longer collecting your data.
But is that true?
What is it that the NSA can no longer do, and who is doing it for them?
This is a Reality Check you won’t see anywhere else.
In June of this year, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law something called the USA Freedom Act. The idea is simple: your private information is private. The Fourth Amendment, in fact, protects it. And if the feds want to see it they need a warrant.
The German-language news source Spiegel ran coverage of the latest German foreign intelligence (BND) report stating that the House of Saud, the ruling family of Saudi Arabia is becoming increasingly radicalized and seeking a more dominant economic and military role in the region.
According to new analysis conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, re-election pressures influence judges into doling out harsher penalties in criminal cases.
The study examines what role judicial candidates' records in criminal cases play in campaigns and what impact these campaigns have on a judge's decision-making.