Donald Trump has already staked his claim to the worst idea in immigration policy—a retrograde mass deportation scheme that was once known as Operation Wetback—but there are plenty of other cockamamie schemes to solve the problem of having a country that workers want to move to. On Wednesday, self-professed teen…
On Friday, June 26, at the funeral of Charleston, South Carolina shooting victim Clementa Pinckney, President Barack Obama closed his moving eulogy for the slain pastor—who was killed along with eight other black congregates at the historic Mother AME Emmanuel Church—by leading the congregation in a rousing rendition…
In 1983, to keep HIV out of the blood supply, the Food and Drug Administration banned any man who had sex with another man after 1977 from donating blood. Next month they might finally strike the discriminatory law.
It might be crass to ask, but will the death of Ted Kennedy help health care reform, what Kennedy called "the cause of my life"? Yes, probably. But maybe not!
Paul Krugman is cautiously optimistic about health care reform happening at some point this year! Let's all celebrate!
There's one fussy detail in the FCC's new plan to give The People free broadband: no porn allowed. Chair Kevin Martin's proposal will require the winning service provider to implement content filters "to protect children," as reported by Ars Technica. Startup M2Z Network once offered the FCC a similar deal, promising…
