Rights and Democracy
Walling off Common Sense
“We're going to do the wall," Donald Trump told a cheering crowd of supporters in a victory speech following the South Carolina Republican primary. He was reiterating his fanciful promise to wall off the entire U.S.-Mexico border — and force Mexico to pay for it....
Mitch McConnell Is a Supreme Hypocrite
Antonin Scalia is gone. The nastiest and noisiest of right wingers on the Supreme Court is dead. But in a blatantly partisan ploy to prevent President Barack Obama from nominating a successor to Scalia, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has cited a brand new...
Hillary Clinton’s Little Red Riding Hood Problem
What’s at Stake with the Supreme Court
Nearly every issue that matters to the American people eventually finds its way before the Supreme Court. Whether it’s access to health care, the right of women to make personal medical decisions, the ability of workers to defend themselves against discrimination, or...
See Marco Run
Since his relatively strong third-place showing in Iowa, the ups and downs of Senator Marco Rubio’s GOP presidential campaign are getting more attention. And so are the lefts and rights. After the man once dubbed “The Republican Savior“ by Time magazine fared well in...
I Am Kalief Browder
The day before I started high school, my father took me up to the park around the corner from our house to have “the talk.” It’s the talk black families had when Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Florida. It’s the talk we had when Michael Brown was shot and killed...
The Passion of Scalia
My mother always told me never to speak ill of the dead. For that reason I won't go on at length about Antonin Scalia, the recently departed Supreme Court justice. My opinion wouldn’t be worth that much anyway. I didn’t know the man — I was never even in the same room...
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The [Redacted] Truth about the CIA
It's no secret that the CIA isn't always up front with the public about its operations. You may even be kept in the dark if you're an elected official. But did you know the agency even lies to its own employees? That's the subject of a recent Washington Post report on...
No Candidate is Perfect
Let me tell you something people don't often say when arguing about presidential candidates on Facebook: No candidate is perfect. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth choosing to support one. For example, you can support Bernie Sanders because you believe he's the...
Scalia’s Big Shoes
