By: Sam Esterman Bill Maher of HBO’s Real Time donated $1 million to the Obama Super PAC, Priorities USA Action, on February 23rd, 2012. Unexpected by Maher and his fellow pundits, the impact defied imagination. Maher is a comedian that hosts his show in Los Angeles, CA. He attends many Hollywood parties and voices liberalism for Hollywood celebrities and entertainment [...]
Interview by Michael Soyfer In the current budget climate, when we’re forced to make tough choices, why do you think Congress should continue to fund OJP and generally why do you think the federal government should be involved in the criminal justice system? Most criminal justice in the United States, over 90%, is handled at the state and local level, [...]
By: Edoardo Saravalle A series of intolerant newsletters have been plaguing Ron Paul’s campaign for most of his recent political career. The publications, with names like The Ron Paul Survival Report and The Ron Paul Investment Letter, first came to public attention during Paul’s 1996 Congressional campaign. His opponent Charles “Lefty” Morris divulged newsletters containing statements like “if you have [...]
By: Logan Bayroff For the first time in quite a long time, something new is happening in Russia. Sure, the former superpower has popped up in the news now and then since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Stories about saber-rattling autocrats and obscenely rich oligarchs are always popular with journalists, and the sordid corruption and crime that accompanies them [...]
By Alexia Nader Edited by Emily Kim The statistics of the U.S. Census Bureau’s new experimental poverty measure are staggering: 16% of the population in the country is living in poverty, about 2.5 million more people than we previously thought. The numbers in the new measure have changed from even two months ago, when the Official Poverty Measure was released, [...]
by Steven Jaffe. Cross-Posted from the DP’s Red and Blue blog. You know the maxim: Korean politics are crazy. Except today, I’m talking about South Korea. Let me extrapolate. In the United States, if congressmen wish to stop a bill from passing, they may try to galvanize opposition to the bill. Maybe they’ll attempt to kill the bill in committee. [...]
by Gregory Segal Art by Gabriella Kahn Texas Governor Rick Perry and Galileo. Despite the unequivocal differences between these two individuals, according to Perry, they aren’t so different. As Perry told the nation at the Republican presidential debate this September, “The idea that we would put Americans’ economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory that’s not settled yet, to me, [...]
by Melissa Roberts Given the horrifying stories of famine and suffering in the Horn of Africa, it seems absurd to propose a reduction of in-kind US food aid to Africa. Yet this might be the only way to end the relentless outbreaks of famine. While all efforts should be made to get emergency food aid to Africa during this famine, [...]
by Logan Bayroff In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s announcement that he will once again stand for president in Russia’s upcoming spring elections, and with the limit on presidential terms extended from four years to six, Russians face the prospect of another twelve years under the reign of their peerless leader. While Putin’s enemies bemoan his now all but inevitable [...]
by Sophia Dimitrova The United States and European countries are currently confronted with a difficult choice: either accept the rise of the rest of the world as synonymous with their own decline or recognize that the perception of world affairs as a zero-sum contest between the West and the “rest” is outdated. For several decades, we have been witnessing the [...]
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