Author: Steven D

There are lots of reasons many police officers have traditionally been accused of brutalizing people. Racism plays a role in far too many cases as the Rodney King incident made clear. Fear and the constant exposure of police to...

For months we have been forced by politicians in Washington to address the wrong problem at the wrong time: deficit reduction without tax hikes during a deep, deep recession, or as I like to call it the Not So Great Depression....

The debt deal is over. There is nothing we can do about that. Nothing. It’s a bad deal for an economy tipping precariously toward a rapid descent into a deeper recession and more unemployment. It has no stimulus in it at...

LINK It seems that the summer heat wave will continue through Friday as sizzling temperatures continue to soar into the 90s. A heat wave with oppressive temperatures and stifling humidity lingered and intensified in the...

Despair, anger, helplessness. I confess I have felt all of those emotions, not only over the past few weeks, but ever since Al Gore conceded defeat in the 2000 election after the Supreme Court effectively appointed George W....