Even amidst the steamy bloviation of our national immigration debate - which at times seems more concerned with partisan advantage than with problem solving - there are cool-headed and serious-minded policy analysts who continue crunching the numbers and tracking the economics of immigration in a...
Move over, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg: you have company! According to BBC News, one of India's richest men - software billionaire Azim Premji, of Bangalore's Wipro Systems - has pledged a cool $2 billion to fund rural education and development projects in India. (See...
After the calamitous bloodletting of the American Civil War, Congress faced the task of binding the nation back together, and ensuring - once and for all, most of them surely hoped - that states would no longer have the right to allow human beings to...
In the fall of 1989, the Berlin Wall came down, ending decades of division and paving the way for the reunification of Germany a couple years later. Over the next several years, as the two Germanies were knitted back together economically and politically, many observers,...
The Arizona state legislature whipped up a froth of controversy nationwide - not to mention lawsuits - when Governor Jan Brewer signed S.B. 1070 into law last April. As originally written, S.B. 1070 required Arizona police to question people about their immigration status whenever the...
Momentous changes have been in the works since November's mid-term elections swept Democrats from control in the House of Representatives, and chipped away at their Senate majority. The effects of these changes will begin to be seen this week, as members of the 112th Congress...
Although the new Congress has yet to be sworn in, the 2012 presidential election is already on the minds of political strategists in both parties. At the moment, there is still time for GOP potential challengers to President Obama to test the waters, make their...
Not long ago, immigration reform was a bipartisan effort, with leading Republicans like then-President George W. Bush and Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham working shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Democratic Senators Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and Barack Obama. How very long ago...
Last week, we at the Murthy Law Firm held our annual holiday party in the Rockland Center of the new - and growing - Owings Mills campus of Stevenson University. The room was alive with laughter and animated conversation, livelier still with the opening of...
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, travel security measures ratcheted up to a level never seen before. Most of these heightened security measures were justified, because we could not afford to risk that another attack might be successful. Although we have had several...
