The presidential library of George W. Bush opens next month. A central aim of the new library appears to be the rehabilitation of Bush’s presidency, primarily by distancing him from the Iraq War and by drawing him closer to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. MSNBC’s Al Sharpton was characteristically outraged on Friday and […]

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Just over 40 years ago, the United States signed an “Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam.” It did neither. President Richard Nixon called it “peace with honor.” But it wasn’t. All the agreement did was end direct U.S. involvement in the war, but certainly not the war itself, nor the conflict […]

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After President Barack Obama called on Congress to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9, it fell on U.S. Senator Marco Rubio to make the conservative case against it. Alas, for a Republican Party trying to reinvent itself for a brave new 21st-century world, all he offered were the same old […]

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In a townhall.com article published in July 2011, 88-year old conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly wrote that the Violence Against Women Act was “implemented to punish men” and ignored a “mountain of evidence” that women initiate physical violence nearly as often as men do. Schlafly demanded protections for men in the law’s reauthorization, and ways to […]

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In the American political lexicon “undocumented” means “Mexican”—our largest immigrant group. Unauthorized immigrant residents peaked at 12 million in 2007. Today Mexicans represent 28 percent of the foreign-born population and 58 percent of the undocumented population. In 2010, 73 percent of all deportees were deported to Mexico. What are the costs of large-scale deportation? A […]

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