The only hope for minimizing the damage of Trump's agenda will be to fight his hate-mongering and right-wing faux populism with a prog...

"White evangelicals, your moral credibility is zero. When you elevate someone like Trump, you’ve sacrificed your integrity. In total...

How hate is ginned up and how those predisposed to fear the "other" spread it like a virus.

We need a shared vision which rejects Religious Nationalism, Hate Speech Demagoguery, and Economic Darwinism - showing the way instead to ...

Trump has so far resisted the long-standing presidential tradition of giving his holdings to an independent manager.  Donald Trump’s vic...

Those who deride the protests of people who are targeted by hate-mongers are privileged enough to do so because it doesn't personally ...

An inspiring and uplifting reflection from my friend Ryan Stegnik-Simes: "Make it your goal to get through today. Show up to work, be ...

Native Americans from tribes all over the country are protesting the construction of a crude-oil pipeline slated to snake through sacred s...

As problematic as Scott Foval’s statements were, he also says in the tape that he did not coach people to stage confrontations inside th...

With spending dropping from a high of $187 billion in 2008 to a projected $58.7 billion for 2015, the company realized that it faced a sha...

from  http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/41/879 18 U.S.C. § 879 : US Code - Section 879: Threats against former Presidents and c...

Yes he did.  He most certainly did. And in doing so, he violated the law ... http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/41/879 Abusive peo...

Polemicist Dinesh D'Souza's revisionist history appeals to the conspiratorial, persecuted conservative mindset.  Conservative po...

Rio Olympics linked to widespread human rights violations, report reveals. Residents, including thousands of children, are victims of viol...

“It’s hard to fathom now, but back when I was growing up in the 1950s, Wall Street banks, major law firms, and every other special interes...

Throughout history, illusionists appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings because of their ability to deceive and manipulate t...

Independence has its place, to be sure. But perhaps what needs remembering and cultivating, what really ought to be celebrated each and ev...

In the 1920s and 1930s, the NRA’s leaders helped write and lobby for the first federal gun control laws - the very kinds of laws that the ...

"The emptiness of language is a gift to demagogues and the corporations." - Chris Hedges Our cultural illiteracy is our inabilit...

Bob Mould is undeniably in the midst of a ferocious late-career tear.  Bob Mould might have been having a self-deprecating chuckle at hi...

His giving appears narrowly tied to his business and, now, his political interests.   Since the first day of his presidential campaign, Do...

This is the $1 million question lately, isn’t it? We’ve progressed as a society beyond some dark chapters in our history; periods of v...

I believe a solid portion of the population is waking up to the reality that the hyper-individualistic system we were born into is actuall...

As is often the case with e-mail polemics focused on purported welfare abuse and taxpayer outrage, the "New American Way of Life...

The tragedy in Flint is a symptom of a larger shift in American political economy. Today, it is normal to blame government deficits for so...

The problem isn’t that background checks don’t thwart bad guys — in fact, they’ve stopped 2.4 million gun purchases by prohibited person...

It’s exactly when the problems are complex and daunting that quick fixes have their special lure. People don’t like feeling daunted. The...

Consistently high levels of hunger and food insecurity have cost the U.S. healthcare system close to a $1 trillion since 2008 alone. The r...

The Democratic National Committee is luring corporate lobbyists with VIP rewards. Reversing a previous position that sought to limit corpo...

If we are going to place the blame for the increasing need for public assistance on anyone, let us place it where it rightfully belongs;...

According to the documents, during one five-month stretch, 90% of those whom the U.S. government killed by drone strike were unintended ta...

“I think there’s this fantasy world of gunplay in the movies, but it doesn’t really happen that way,” said retired Army Sgt. Rafael Noboa ...

A predictable gun lobby talking point in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting is that "mass shootings occur where guns are b...