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Eric Holder May Have Just Made One Of the Biggest Decisions in U.S. History

Aug 12, 2013 | Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, Marijuana Legalization and the War on Drugs, mic

Published: mic (August 12, 2013)

On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department will stop imposing mandatory minimum prison sentences on a number of non-violent drug offenders.

As he explained in a prepared statement:

“I have mandated a modification of the Justice Department’s charging policies so that certain low-level, nonviolent drug offenders who have no ties to large-scale organizations, gangs, or cartels, will no longer be charged with offenses that impose draconian mandatory minimum sentences.”

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Immigration Reform 2013: Why Did the Media Ignore Yesterday’s Rallies?

Aug 6, 2013 | Conservativism, Immigration, Liberalism, Media Issues, mic, Political Ideologies

Published: mic (August 6, 2013)

When Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) visited Harrisburg, Pa., Monday to headline a political event for Congressman Scott Perry (R), he was greeted by more than the usual crowd of GOP well-wishers. As a crowd of protesters supporting Obama’s immigration reform policy assembled outside Metro Bank Park, they could be heard chanting “Serve the needy, not the greedy” and “Move Boehner, get out of the way.

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Top 10 Signs You’re In Israel

Aug 1, 2013 | Jewish Experiences, mic, World Affairs

Published: mic (August 1, 2013)
co-author Tillie Adelson

Before we were columnists at PolicyMic, Tillie Adelson and I were just ordinary Jewish twenty-somethings visiting Israel for the first time through Yael Adventures. Yael, or Birthright as it is better known, is a program that offers a free trip to the Jewish State for young Jews between the ages of 18 and 26 who have never been there before.

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Imagine What Would Have Happened If John McCain Had Stayed For This Meeting ….

Aug 1, 2013 | Democrats, mic, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: mic (August 1, 2013)

If you follow the news cycle closely, you may have noticed a cute little story yesterday about John McCain. As CNN reported, the Arizona senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate opened a door that he thought would bring him to one of his appointments … and found that he had accidentally wandered into a Capitol Hill meeting between President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats.

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The Complicated Legacy Of Helen Thomas

Jul 20, 2013 | Foreign Policy, Jewish Experiences, Media Issues, mic, Scandals, World Affairs

Published: mic (July 20, 2013)

How does an American political historian cope with the death of Helen Thomas?

She was a pioneer for female journalists, an old-fashioned shoe-leather reporter, an astute observer of Washington’s grimy, smarmy underbelly who had personally interrogated every president since John F. Kennedy. When Stephen Colbert used the third act of his legendary 2006 White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech to pay her a tongue-in-cheek tribute, few in the press corps doubted that the honor was well deserved.... Read Original Article

The Obama Speech On Trayvon Martin Was Brutally Honest — And Magnificent

Jul 19, 2013 | Liberalism, mic, Political Ideologies, President Obama, Race and Racism

Published: mic (July 19, 2013)

Liberals … we have our Obama back.

Well, let’s not go too far. The president who repeatedly compromised when it wasn’t necessary (see the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), reneged on promises (see Guantanamo Bay), and betrayed his own professed principles (see PRISM) cannot be entirely forgiven for his ideological betrayals simply after one press conference.

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