This Isn’t What Democracy Looks Like

This Isn’t What Democracy Looks Like

Wisconsin Republicans have finally stopped pretending to uphold the sanctity of the political process. Instead of allowing the will of the Wisconsin electorate to determine the fate of six Republican state senators facing recall elections, Republican Party leaders...
The GOP’s Honeymoon Is So Over

The GOP’s Honeymoon Is So Over

Republicans swept last year’s elections. The GOP captured more than 675 state legislative seats, flipped 10 governor’s mansions, gained control of over 20 state legislative chambers, and won more than 60 seats in Congress previously occupied by Democrats....
A Little Less Corporate Political Corruption

A Little Less Corporate Political Corruption

Come on, Obama, do it. Stand up, stand tall, stand firm. Yes, you can! President Barack Obama is thinking about issuing an executive order that would mitigate some of the damage done to our democracy by the Supreme Court’s dastardly Citizens United edict, which...

Elections You Can’t Count On

Elections keep Our land afloat; But all’s not equal When we vote. You may believe that on Election Day all of officialdom momentarily unites in urging us to vote. Leaders–rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, business and labor–want us to do our...

Spotlight on Sudan

After the government’s second attempt to kill me, I fled Sudan. That was 2005, the year I was forced to abandon work, friends, and family to become a refugee in the United States. Now, 7,000 miles from home, I am fighting harder and making my voice heard to...