Dec 22, 2014 | Arts and Entertainment, Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, Terrorism, World Affairs
Published: Daily Dot (December 22, 2014) Say what you will about The Interview, but let’s abandon the notion that the filmmakers were wrong for their fictionalized depiction of Kim Jong-un’s death. The reason is simple: It is healthy to assert that Kim Jong-un...
Dec 19, 2014 | Arts and Entertainment, Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, Terrorism, World Affairs
Published: Good Men Project (December 19, 2014) Matthew Rozsa is mad as hell that Sony pulled ‘The Interview.’ But he’s equally horrified by the company’s racist attitudes. ___ If North Korea has shown the world anything, it is that the executives at Sony are abject...
Dec 18, 2014 | Arts and Entertainment, Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, Terrorism, World Affairs
Published: Good Men Project (December 18, 2014) Matthew Rozsa believes North Korea’s threat to Sony challenges the very essence of our democratic freedoms. ___ Is it too much to expect Americans who expect to profit from the First Amendment to stand up for its...
Dec 11, 2014 | Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, President Obama, Salon.com
Published: Daily Dot (December 11, 2014), Salon (December 14, 2014) Americans like to believe its presidents are monsters. The Senate's new report shows just how powerless they are If the public learns the right lesson from the Senate’s release of the torture report,...
Nov 20, 2014 | Democrats, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Foreign Policy, History, Liberalism, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, Plutocracy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties
Published: Daily Dot (November 20, 2014) As a progressive millennial who actively volunteered for and supported Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, I am ready to make public an opinion I’ve only expressed in private until now: In retrospect, I...
Nov 12, 2014 | Democrats, Economic Policy, Foreign Policy, Health Care Reform, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama
Published: Daily Dot (November 12, 2014) Supporters of President Obama can rest easy: His legacy as one of America’s greatest presidents remains intact, even if the tide of public and Internet sentiments has turned. (His approval rating stands at a paltry 39 percent.)...
Oct 11, 2014 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Foreign Policy, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, Millennials, Political Ideologies, Salon.com
Published: Salon (October 11, 2014) Previously, politicians fought to be seen as more hawkish than their opponents. Here's why those days are over Senator Rand Paul, ostensibly the heir to his father’s reputation as one of America’s premier go-to libertarians,...
Mar 14, 2014 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, Foreign Policy, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, History, Mental Illness, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans, Salon.com
Published: mic (March 14, 2014) A CPAC attendee wearing a Ronald Reagan mask. Republicans sure love to talk about Ronald Reagan. Just look at some of these quotes from the Conservative Political Action Conference last week: "Once again, the GOP is where the action...
Mar 9, 2014 | Civil Liberties, Conservativism, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: mic (March 9, 2014) The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has held its annual straw poll. For the second year in a row, the winner was Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. What does his victory mean? What does it tell us about the future of...
Feb 24, 2014 | Foreign Policy, History, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, Millennials, Other Media, World Affairs
Published: mic (February 24, 2014), Appearance on Channel 69 - WFMZ (February 25, 2014) The news: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel plans to announce billions of dollars in military spending cuts, reducing our armed forces to troop levels unseen since 1940— before...