It is obscene and maddening that the country must process yet another senseless, bloody weekend. Ten innocent people were slaughtered and three wounded at a Buffalo supermarket brought about by a lethal combination: hate and easy access to military-style weapons. An assassin’s act of white supremacy-fueled violence has terminated the futures of ten human beings and forever altered … Read more
Reversing Roe v. Wade Is NOT Just About Abortions by Karen Pataky, Director, Public Policy & Political Action Committee; Chair, Health Policy Task Force So ex-President Trump’s SCOTUS nominees are fulfilling their purpose. Roe v Wade will cease to be settled law in one month and several states are ready to make all abortions illegal. … Read more
The Silent Democrats By Zina Greene, Member, Democracy & Human Rights Task Force Few will forget the Senate committee confirmation hearings for Justice Katanji Brown Jackson and the vile treatment she received from Senators Cruz, Blackman, Graham, and others who read their questions, or mostly made statements from a script—the same script. The script paid … Read more
By Elizabeth Spiro Clark, Chair, Task Force on Human Rights & Democracy The maniacal effort of a Supreme Court Justice’s wife to use her position and influence with her husband to help the former president overturn a free and fair election that installed the current president seems to have been met with weak talk about … Read more
By Zina Greene, Member, Democracy & Human Rights Task Force Dear Chief Justice Roberts, You must cringe to read about Justice Thomas and his wife as new revelations regarding possible ethics violations appear, daily. After all, you are the Chief Justice and the history of the court will be written as the Roberts Court. It … Read more
One takeaway from the media coverage in the week following President Biden’s State of the Union Address is that facts without hype, a serious approach to complicated problems, and a mature acceptance of realities are a hard sell following the last administration’s rollercoaster ride of thrills and chills, lies and flimflam. Perhaps it is time … Read more
Republican politicians have lied to us. They love “Big Government” but only when they are in charge. Ex-President Trump succeeded in packing our Supreme Court with justices primarily selected for their anti-abortion stance. And now GOP politicians are passing laws that will force motherhood on women in 11 states, even in cases of rape or … Read more
This moment brings in the high relief why the media and its commentators have been so bad at covering a truly enormous event in global history: the Russian invasion of Ukraine and not only its peoples brave defense of their land and their democratic freedoms but citizens of the world taking to their streets to … Read more
In our despair at the reckless destruction we see Putin inflicting on Ukraine, it is too easy to discount the importance of the European security architecture that US administrations have worked with our allies to create since the end of the Cold War. While it is true that these institutions cannot impose instant solutions to … Read more
The latest in a series of documentaries on American presidents was on President George W. Bush. It ends with his decision to invade Iraq in what became the Second Iraq War. The reason for this decision was given as the importance of taking strong action following the 9/11 attack. The majority of those counseling him … Read more
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