Dec 17, 2014 | Arts and Entertainment, Civil Liberties, Gender and Sexism, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State
Published: Daily Dot (December 17, 2014) One of the greatest achievements in human history. Barbara Walters wasn’t technically incorrect when she used this phrase to declare Amal Clooney as the most fascinating person of 2014. After all, Walters' choice was a lawyer...
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...
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,...
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...
Jan 4, 2014 | Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, Political Ideologies
Published: mic (January 4, 2014) Liberals, conservatives, and libertarians unite! If ever there was a time for us to see past our differences in the name of a common cause, that time is now. As Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced last night, a movement is afoot for a...
Sep 13, 2013 | Foreign Policy, History, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, President Obama
Published: mic (September 13, 2013) Political insight can come from the darndest places. On this occasion, inspiration struck me in the midst of insomnia-induced light reading. My nocturnal literary companion, Kristin L. Hoganson's classic historical monograph...
Sep 11, 2013 | Foreign Policy, History, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, Terrorism
Published: mic (September 11, 2013) While it's a tad unorthodox to opean a political op-ed with two historical quotes, this pair strikes me as particularly prescient: 1. "They [the Union of states] will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments...
Aug 12, 2013 | Conservativism, Foreign Policy, Liberalism, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: mic (August 12, 2013) While Sarah Palin rarely provokes anything more than justified contempt among the left, her recent announcement that she is on "Team Rand" is as good a cause as any for liberals to remind themselves of why the ongoing feud between the...
Jun 28, 2013 | Economic Policy, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Health Care Reform, Immigration, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, Political Parties, Republicans, Salon.com
Published: mic (June 28, 2013) While most liberals remember the exact moment when Barack Obama became a national figure — i.e., his delivery of the Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention — few recall that one of the central messages of that...