Month: July 2014

My niece, singer and songwriter:

This is weird and not good. Erin, a 25-year-old from St. Louis, Mo., who asked that her last name not be used to protect her privacy, said that before she heard the term through social media, she remembers feeling pride when she...

The House Republicans’ decision to not allow a vote on comprehensive immigration reform, even though they have the votes to pass it, is going to have political consequences. Because most House Republicans would have...

Nick Hanauer’s memo to his fellow zillionaires is great fun. His basic message is that the federal government needs to substantially raise the minimum wage or zillionaires are going to get guillotined. But he’s...

The Hobby Lobby, etc. decision may look narrow but it’s not.  The decision seems to have borrowed heavily from another case, but for reasons that will become clear, accepting the Hobby Lobby, etc. case for review gave...