Charles E. Lewis Jr., Ph.D Archive

Having spent the better part of my life as a resident of New York City, I was very much interested in the September10rd Democratic primary that resulted in Public Advocate Bill de Blasio winning the Democratic nomination and the right …

California Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-13), Chair of the Congressional Social Work Caucus and all-around phenomenal woman of the 21st century has added a new role to her influential leadership portfolio—United States Representative to the United Nations, assuming her appointment by …

The war hawks were circling the White House after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s apparent use of chemical weapons against civilians on August 21.  As pressure mounted on President Obama to make good on his threat that using chemical weapons would …

The 50th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington organized by labor leaders A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin that featured the “I Have a Dream” speech by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a time for …

If, as we often say, children are our future, you would think we pursue policies to ensure that more of the nation’s children develop into healthy and productive citizens.  Wait, you say, that is not the job of the federal …

Declaring in a speech Monday to the American Bar Association that “widespread incarceration at the federal, state, and local levels is both ineffective and unsustainable”, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a number of policy directives aimed at winding down the …

I started writing this post by raising the question whether Congress was failing the American people.  But I realized at most it would be a rhetorical question.  With an 83 percent disapproval rating in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, …