It’s been a long and contentious eighteen years since the first Dream Act was introduced in Congress in 2001. The issue of providing a
Tag: Obama
Hard to tell where the pendulum of normalcy will swing next
After Barack Obama was elected, it seemed that America had a new normalcy, one that some described as “post-racial.” For any who took that
Bernie, Hillary, and body language
Yesterday, Bernie endorsed Hillary. Body language experts across the Web came to the same conclusion: They don’t like each other. They saw Hillary as
Is the country headed in the right direction?
Do you think that the country is headed in the right direction? When asked that question in public-opinion polls, Invariably, a majority of respondents
It’s 2016: What happened to all those dire, Obama-geddon predictions?
Now that it’s 2016, it’s time to fact-check some of the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it predictions that President Obama’s critics made before his 2012 re-election. In an
Iran Nuclear Deal too complicated for TV commercials
A new CNN / ORC poll just revealed that the majority of Americans want Congress to reject the nuclear deal with Iran that the
After TPP, Obama may have a tough time convincing some on Iran deal
Like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the nuclear deal between Iran and five other countries including the United States is complicated, and the devil is
What if the President spoke to us as if he was on “The Wire?”
I’ve spoken with several people who just could not watch President Obama’s State of the Union speech. These are Obama supporters, but for various
From Kennedy to Obama – what might have been
I was in eleventh grade when the shots were fired, the announcement was made, and the LBJ years began. Up until JFK, my father
So-called scandals are too nuanced to be investigated by Republicans
How many times have we heard the phrase, “this is too important to be left to politics?” Yes, when we’re discussing foreign policy or