Liberal Lens
Don’t pity the billionaire
David SirotaFeb 06, 2014
The rich have never been richer and the poor keep getting poorer. The financial Masters of the Universe enjoy indefinite taxpayer-funded bailouts, while the social...
Reefer sanity takes hold in Colorado
David SirotaJan 16, 2014
Seven years before legal marijuana went on sale this month in my home state of Colorado, the drug warriors in President George W. Bush’s administration released an...
Single-payer signal in the Obamacare noise
David SirotaNov 07, 2013
Whenever scandal arises in Washington, DC, the fight between the two parties typically ends up being a competition to identify a concise message in the chaos — or, as...
Learning from a thousand year flood
David SirotaSep 30, 2013
Two months before my Colorado community was overwhelmed this week by epic rains, our state’s chief oil and gas regulator, Matt Lepore, berated citizens concerned about...
What happened to the anti-war movement?
David SirotaSep 12, 2013
A mere 72 hours after President Obama delivered an encomium honoring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, he announced his intention to pound yet another country with...
Government not immune to the law
David SirotaAug 01, 2013
COURT cases are often cures for insomnia, but every so often a lawsuit is an eye-opening journey through the looking glass. One of those is suddenly upon us and...
How cash secretly rules surveillance policy
David SirotaJul 25, 2013
Have you noticed anything missing in the political discourse about the National Security Administration’s unprecedented mass surveillance? There’s certainly been a...
Humanity’s oldest story
David SirotaJun 27, 2013
This is a tale of two presidents the one we hope we have and the one we actually have. It is also a tale of two kinds of violence […]
Washington fairy tales
David SirotaJun 06, 2013
As social media accelerate the velocity of political news, fact-free stereotypes and reductionist shorthand are increasingly substituted for accuracy and nuance. Coastal...
After Oklahoma disaster, thank government
David SirotaMay 30, 2013
Within hours of last weeks tornado disaster in Oklahoma, I (like many others) received emails from the President of the US and my senator. With impassioned language,...