It is time for Congress to restore the value of the minimum wage, and to allow it to fulfill its intended purpose by raising the wage floor, eliminating the sub-minimum tipped wage, and affixing both to the nation’s median wage.
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill called the “USA FREEDOM Act” that purports to tackle mass surveillance—an issue that affects hundreds of millions of Americans. But the USA FREEDOM Act is not real reform. Instead of meaningfully restoring American civil liberties, it instead preserves bulk data collection and ultimately fails to end mass surveillance. Thankfully, the USA Freedom Act did not pass the Senate. If it had, it would have effectively solidified the NSA’s unconstitutional spying of Americans—again.
Soon after I began as a Young Fellow at FCNL, President Obama announced a new war in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State. Lacking congressional approval, the administration instead claimed that the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, a fourteen-year old authorization that consists of a mere sixty words, served as legal justification.
Friends across the country have been engaging in faith-based work to end mass incarceration. Their grassroots efforts show great potential.
It is time we create a society where war and violence are not the norm
On June 16, Putin announced that Russia would deploy 40 new nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) in order to boost its nuclear arsenal. While this statement is a step in the wrong direction, there are three important reasons why no one should be panicking.
Edward Snowden’s WikiLeaks revelations sparked widespread media attention around NSA data collection and government surveillance
Members of Congress, who passed a budget resolution last week, claim that the budget supports our current and former service members in the military. They would point to a $24 billion per year increase in defense spending as evidence that they intend to do right by the troops. However, the details tell a very different story.
Quiet reflections are calm, sometimes chaotic but it produces a heart and mind that is open to the many colorful experiences that life affords us.
Steps are being made to dismantle the mass surveillance infrastructure built in the “war on terror” era.
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