Media Project Op-Ed

President Obama’s decision to create a commission on how to cut so-called entitlement programs is ominous news for millions of people with disabilities.read more

More than 13,500 service members have been discharged under this policy. The stressed federal budget has paid from $290 million to nearly half a billion dollars to enforce the ban, UCLA’s Williams Institute estimates.read more

President Obama is at risk of losing his Latino base — and surrendering the moral high ground — unless he champions the rights of immigrants.read more

We are fortunate that half a century ago, in Greensboro, N.C., four black freshmen from North Carolina A & T University made history.read more

Judge Walton found that Colonel Davis had demonstrated a substantial “likelihood of success on the merits” of his case, which asserts he was illegally fired for exercising his free speech rights.read more

Howard Zinn will never stop informing us on our ultimate responsibility of being human.read more

Across the country, school administrators are making cops and metal detectors as much a part of the school day as teachers and textbooks. So-called zero-tolerance disciplinary policies are transforming the campus into hostile territory, alienating communities and pushing vulnerable students to give up on their education.read more

Haiti needs 12,000 doctors, Obama sent 12,000 troops to help us to death.read more

We must not allow ourselves to turn a blind eye to the continued degradation of an entire country. We must not permit millions of our brothers and sisters to live without a real measure of dignity. We must never again sustain such depraved indifference.read more

It’s an eerie time to be celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.read more

Mexican Americans made political history 40 years ago when, on Jan. 17, 1970, they founded their own independent political party in Crystal City, Texas. They called it “La Raza Unida Party” — or, translated, “The United People’s Party.”read more

I’ve had enough of the derisive talk about “Cadillac” health insurance plans. They’re not all that they are cracked up to be, and they are not what is driving health care costs skyward.read more

Simpson’s appointment and the new nondiscrimination policy for federal hires are steps forward. Now it’s time for Congress to do its part to help end the rampant discrimination against transgender Americans by finally passing ENDA.read more

The new travel directive from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) won’t make us safer. And it may make tracking down real criminals more complicated than ever.read more

Confronted by a system that is failing, countless people are detained each day, hidden from public knowledge. Among the hundreds are not only people without papers but also legal residents, people seeking asylum, victims of human trafficking and even U.S.-born citizens who have been caught up in immigration raids.read more