
The United States has more people in prison today than the population of Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago when it was at its peak, because of the ineffective drug war.

The United States has more people in prison today than the population of Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago when it was at its peak, because of the ineffective drug war.

Grieg is just the latest Republican to suffer the consequences of making inflammatory rape comments. It’s disappointing, however, that the vote to oust Grieg was so close.

Attention to the problems at Dartmouth proved not that the protestors were ill-advised in their actions, but that there is a place for high-profile activism.

April has seen a disproportionate amount of tragedy, from murder/suicides to bombings and mass shootings, some of our most tragic events have occurred in April.

While the GOP tries to axe funding for Planned Parenthood and other women’s health clinics across the nation, this guy was arrested for actually going to his local Planned Parenthood and vandalizing it with an axe.

Something is terribly wrong when we live in a culture where our youth believe that violence is the answer to boredom.

Hadiya has become a symbol and a rallying point for many reasons, articulated by those at the funeral who knew her.

Republican strategist Ana Navarro believes that Republicans would do well to get behind universal background checks for gun purchases as the best strategy for their floundering party.

For a political party whose last shred of survival lies in embracing America’s diversity, its leaders have absolutely no idea how not to stick their figurative feet into their proverbial pie holes.

‘Don’t be dragging people’s children into this. It’s wrong, and I think it demeans them, and it makes them less of a valid, trusted source of information.’

The only thing that stopped Romney’s son from attacking Obama was the Secret Service, apparently.

For this weekend’s reading list we have articles on the Obama vs. Romney Supreme Court, True the Vote, rebuilding the middle class, guns and reducing crime in big cities, and dealing with climate change.

A Republican newsletter in Virginia is openly calling for violently overthrowing the duly elected government of the United States should Democrats still be in charge.

Yesterday I saw two examples of people struggling against the issues that truly do plague more than 99% of our nation: war, peace, poverty and prosperity.

The current Republican party is like a coin. On one side, the head, there is Mitt Romney – cool, detached, almost robotic. On the other side, the tail, there are Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Glenn Beck, Rick Santorum, Ann Coulter and Ted Nugent. What people often forget is that they are the same coin.

One of my favorite lines of reasoning for ‘gun rights’ is that if the citizenry loses their right to protect themselves, the government ‘could just take over.’