In Focus, a column by Rich Elfers for The Reporter
What’s all the fuss about the Keystone XL pipeline proposal anyway?
Income inequality has grown enormously over the past 30 years. As these numbers suggest, we are facing a growing epidemic of poverty with all its attendant problems, but the rich are in danger, too
Why did President Obama make his recent proposal to federally fund two years of community college to all students?
The best way to deal with Castro would have been for the U.S. to keep quiet and to continue to trade with Cuba
Elfers thinks of the Alien and Sedition Acts when seeing what the Republicans in Congress are doing with the immigration issue
The battle we are now witnessing between the president and the Republicans in Congress over immigration is a strange one
Elfers discusses the few surprises in last week’s elections
Bipartisanship campaigns are “in” in the 2014 elections
There is no mention of education in the Constitution. If that is the case, and it is, why is the federal government so deeply involved?
The power shift between America now and 100 years ago
Elfers explains why the Seahawks quarterback is worth emulating
The way President Obama and the European Union are handling the Ukrainian crisis is a major mistake
Gates has written a book called “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.” As borne out in his book, Gates had clear goals to bring a lasting positive outcome to the War in Iraq. He has both praise and criticism for the presidents he served.
We are living in a culture where the financial elite in their greed can nearly destroy a nation as they almost did in the economic meltdown of 2008, yet all corporate leadership escaped prosecution.
Putin’s strategy has been to tone down the conflict in Ukraine, while sending in more, sophisticated weaponry to the Ukrainian rebels. At the same time, he has attempted to split the Europeans who need Russian oil and natural gas.
The new economic model is one where, “Superstar-based technical change is upending the global economy.”
The decision reached in the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement at the end of World War I has been unraveling piece by piece in recent weeks.
When I was in my early 20s, a father of one of my friends asked me what my goals were. I didn’t have an answer, nor did I want to think about it, but his question kept coming to the surface of my consciousness again and again.
In 2012, something amazing happened: Republicans and Democrats came together during a bitter election-year campaign and fixed the National Flood Insurance Program
