NEAL GABLER, senior fellow, USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center:
This article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
"This is the Oscars' year of nostalgia — or at least that has been the pronouncement among observers. There is, of course, "The Artist," a silent film set in the silent film era. There is Martin Scorsese's "Hugo," which is the story of the rediscovery of one of the early pioneers of the movies, the French director George Méliès. There is...
LISA SCHWEITZER, associate professor in USC Price School of Public Policy:
This article originally appeared in POLITICO,
"Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood last week told POLITICO that the House transportation bill is “the worst” measure he’s ever seen “during 35 years of public service.”
His problem? The legislation would eliminate the deficit-plagued Highway Trust Fund as a funding source for transit, walking and biking projects. Money for those projects would instead have to come out of the general fund.
Transit and sustainability...
MARY L. DUDZIAK, professor of law, history and political science at USC's Gould School of Law:
This article originally appeared in the New York Times.
"The defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, recently announced that America hoped to end its combat mission in Afghanistan in 2013 as it did in Iraq last year. Yet at Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere, the United States continues to hold enemy detainees “for the duration of hostilities.”
Indeed, the “ending” of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq...
REBECCA L. BROWN, professor of constitutional law in USC's Gould School of Law:
This op-ed originally appeared The Times-Picayune.
"The Supreme Court will soon consider the Affordable Care Act. Some argue that the challenge to the individual mandate is about federalism -- the allocation of power between federal and state governments in our republic. But a close look at the Constitution shows that this is false.
The Constitution gives Congress power "to regulate commerce ... among the several States." Anything...
DAVE LOGAN, lecturer in the Management & Organization department in USC's Marshall School of Business:
This article originally appeared on CBS MoneyWatch.
"Mitt Romney has a leadership problem, he doesn't know it, and he can't fix it. Gingrich has a similar problem, but he does know it, and he has tried unsuccessfully to fix it. You may have the same problem: You need to change something about yourself -- a position on an issue, or even how people think of...
