A tall order for Trumka
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
Working Americans don’t see their fortunes tied to the labor movement any longer. Which is really, really too bad. Because they are.
Uighurs deserve legal remedy
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
A case the U.S. Supreme Court took Tuesday asks whether a court has the power to free Guantanamo detainees after finding they were wrongly imprisoned, even if the only place to send them is the United States.
The Smiley-Face Facade
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, Oct. 19, 2009
Behind the smiley-face facade, we are privately worried, and we have reason to be.
A cross we should not bear
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, Oct. 12, 2009
It is telling that Congress has weighed in three times to try to keep a Latin cross war memorial atop a rocky slope at California's Mojave National Preserve. Such ridiculous lengths suggest what we all know: Without a constitutional brake, government will use its power to promote the majority’s religious beliefs.
A golden opportunity to declaw Patriot Act
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, Oct. 5, 2009
It is time to revisit the USA Patriot Act, the congressional cowardice that vastly expanded the ability of the government to unjustly intrude on our private lives. Three provisions will expire by the end of the year, which means Congress will have to act.
The modern retirement plan: Cross your fingers
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, Sept. 28, 2009
Looking back, the deal we were sold was a bum steer. We were told that building wealth in a 401(k) would bring financial peace of mind with the added benefit of job mobility.
Only a Cleanup Can Restore ACORN’s Legitimacy
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, Sept. 21, 2009
ACORN’s leaders must have missed Liberal Advocacy 101, which teaches the Ralph Nader lesson: To point a finger at powerful interests, one needs clean hands.
Mistreated workers need our attention
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, Sept. 14, 2009
What always shocks me the most about the willingness of corporations to disregard what is fair and right in order to engorge the bottom line is the way so many companies cheat their workers.
Even skeptics should heed these climate warnings
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009
Do you support our troops? If so, you might want to get behind the push for alternative energy and a reduced carbon “bootprint” because our military says it’s essential for American security.
‘The Moth’ reminds us that storytelling isn't dead
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, Aug. 24, 2009
In 1997, trying to re-create those Georgia evenings, novelist George Dawes Green invited friends to his New York apartment for storytelling. The sessions caught on and soon had to move to larger venues. Today, the Moth is a true phenomenon with hundreds of storytellers regaling thousands of eager listeners.
Republicans vs. science
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, Aug. 17, 2009
It is no wonder the Republican throngs showing up to disrupt town hall meetings on health care reform are so gullible, willing to believe absurd claims like the coming of “death panels.” Their party is nearly devoid of neuroscientists, astrophysicists, marine biologists or any other scientific professional who would insist on intellectual rigor, objective evidence and sound reasoning as the basis for public policy development.
The pliability of disorderly conduct laws
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, Aug. 3, 2009
Forgive me for prolonging the controversy over Gates’ arrest by Crowley, but as I see it, people have been focusing on the wrong thing. The issue is not so much race or class but the law itself.
It’s time for Cheney to fade from view
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, July 27, 2009
Since leaving office, Dick Cheney has been crowing with “24”-like bravado that the Bush administration policies of mistreating prisoners and exposing Americans to “what do you have to hide?” surveillance kept the United States from another terrorist attack. How sad for him that as official reports emerge, they say it isn’t true.
Time for Democrats to take stand on abortion
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, July 13, 2009
In the national debate on health care, there is a major effort stirring to block abortion coverage in the plans that emerge. If abortion becomes a disposable pawn in this political game, then the Democrats will have betrayed women.
Court was right to douse ‘disparate impact’ fire
By ROBYN BLUMNER - Monday, July 6, 2009
When race is involved no case is minor, but Ricci v. DeStefano gained blockbuster status after the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. She was part of an appellate panel that threw out the claims of the 18 white firefighters, one of whom is Hispanic, who lost out on promotions due to the actions of the city of New Haven, Conn.
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