Author: Michael Holtzman
Michael Holtzman is a graduate of the New England School of Law and a recently licensed attorney in the state of New York. In the past few years, he has worked at the International Criminal Court and for the National Lawyers Guild as a legal observer. He works primarily in the legal aid sector. In addition to his legal experience, he is a freelance writer with a focus on international social and political issues.
Once again, fears of a “looming financial crisis” are being sounded by some economists and financial analysts. Should you heed these warnings? Or is this just an indication that economic confidence still has a ways to go?
According to the United States Constitution, the police cannot legally stop you without evidence that a crime was or is being committed. That said, they still stop people all the time with little or no evidence of a crime being committed.
The reality is that there are plenty of people excluded from the narrow definition we use to describe “unemployment” who are unable to or prevented from working a full-time job.
As business owners squeeze costs and cut corners by using franchise operators, subcontractors, and temp agencies, government officials are reporting a record number of enforcement actions to curtail what is loosely referred to as “wage theft.”
With the ejection of demonstrators becoming commonplace at Trump rallies and protesters using increasingly aggressive disruption tactics, both sides are claiming their own right to free speech is being violated. Which side is right?
After former NSA contractor Edward Snowden notoriously leaked a trove of secret documents detailing how the U.S. government was spying on American citizens, the pendulum of public opinion had arguably swung in the direction of privacy advocates. That swing may have started to reverse.
It’s not clear that unionization is necessarily the best way out of this mess. But even if a small group of college football and basketball players decided to stop playing until their demands were met, administrators would have no choice but to consider offering a better deal.
The American public elected politicians to the Senate to do a job. In this case, that means going through the hearing process and taking a vote. If the tables were turned for these parties, as they were in 2008 and will undoubtedly be again in the future, the same principle should hold.
Of the many subjects upon which well-meaning Americans often disagree, federal income taxes are among the most contentious. At a moment when general government gross debt (federal, state, and local) exceeds $19 trillion and income inequality is at its highest point in nearly a century, what does it mean to pay your fair share? Ronald […]
We are frequently told that poverty in the United States is such an intractable and complex problem that any serious attempt at eradicating it requires a diverse array of approaches and reforms. But what if that’s not true?