The elections two weeks ago reflected significant advances for the cause of gun violence prevention. Meanwhile, with stories of fear-driven gun sales emerging since the election, the shallowness of the gun lobby's divisive approach to America's problems has never been more apparent.

The Brady Campaign produced a well-documented report...

At the beginning of October a combination of unemployment and political anxiety drove me to pack my bags and head for Michigan. If I wasn't working elsewhere, I had no excuse for spending the remainder of the election on the sidelines. I have always been a man of strong political...

Wild fires in California? Sure, you can call in the smoke jumpers. Superman might be able to blow them out with his super powers. Barack Obama will attack them from the Internet, in a preview of how 2.0 web-based Democracy is going to work.

Everyone has been wondering...

Yesterday, I spoke at the National Press Club in Washington. The following are excerpts from my speech. The full transcript can be found at www.aft.org.

Neither the economy nor public education can be strong when the other is weak. Growing the economy and creating a shared prosperity requires a...

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that the true test of a first rate intellect is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still function.

For example: "Hillary Clinton would make an excellent secretary of state," and "Hillary Clinton would make a terrible addition...

I can't imagine being in Hillary Clinton's shoes right about now.

At her news conference last week, she really did look like the cat that swallowed the canary when asked about the reports that Barack Obama was considering her to be his Secretary of State.

If offered, would she dare...

A safe prediction: Compared with the Bush administration, the Obama administration is going to invest more public dollars in rebuilding and modernizing American infrastructure.

There will certainly be debate over how much investment by our government is needed . The new Institute for America's Future report, "The Investment Deficit...

Just over a year ago, Sgt. Brian Kresge of the website Jews in Green had nothing but praise for Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). Kresge even made a point of noting, in the introduction to an interview he had done...

In the eighteenth century, if the captain of a warship could not identify the nationality of an armed vessel, he might order his crew to fire a cannonball across the other ship's bow. The immediate message was clear: Show your colors. Equally clear was the implied warning: If you reveal...

Days in Alaska politics tend to focus on things like Troopergate, The Executive Branch Ethics Act, the endless and ongoing vote count in Alaska, the corruption and conviction of Alaska politicians and the latest comings and goings of our Governor. So, when something like this lands softly in my inbox,...

Prince and Michael Jackson are top of the fold on blog pages like Huff Post, CNN.com and MSNBC.com. Is this 1988 or 2008? The Obama team has now dominated 5 days -- that is 120 hour-long internet news cycles -- with one story. Will the Clinton's be secy-of-state(s)?

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On Nov. 4, 2008, a proclamation that had echoed through the American lexicon for nearly a decade was crushed beneath the weight of history:

"If he wins, I'm moving to Canada."

Uttered in liberal enclaves from Cambridge to the Castro District since the Florida recounts in 2000,...

For two months, when she was unknown, yet asking the American public to elect her vice president of the United States - when it mattered seriously for Americans to know precisely who she was and see her vetted in public- Sarah Palin couldn't be found anywhere near a challenging microphone....

In every crisis there is opportunity. That lesson has been well-learned by all the wrong people over the past eight years.

American defense contractors like Blackwater, Triple Canopy and DynCorp made obscene profits in the chaos created by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in Iraq. Imagine their armored Humvees pulling...

On Thursday after his election, President-Elect Obama met with Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and top CIA analyst Mike Morrell to receive his first intelligence briefing. Though CIA chief Mike Hayden (does every senior intelligence official go by "Mike?") has issued one of those "keep on working, nothing...

I'm just as awe-struck as the next American by Barack Obama's unprecedented campaign and election, but in case you've been spelunking for the past year and haven't noticed, the country is in a bit of a "situation" right now. And like many Americans, I'm still a bit worried about the...

Over at my magazine's site, starting over a week ago, we have been chronicling local anti-Obama incidents, many far from the national spotlight, usually involving racist attacks of a verbal, physical or even criminal nature. A few days ago, the Associated Press and some other news outlets picked up...

In the slapstick classic Funny Farm, Chevy Chase ends up writing a novel called The Big Heist which is so bad - so painfully, terribly awful - that he ends up going insane and burning it in front of his horrified wife. With that in mind, here's my question after...

Surely you've heard of the Obama-Biden Transition Project and know it's a 501c(4) organization, right? Have you visited the official website at change.gov, read the blog, and shared your vision for America?

If you think like I do, perhaps you agree with Josh Bernoff's three tips...