Research by Vanderbilt University shows that Senator Bernie Sanders’ "America" ad makes viewers feel good. A panel consisting of 1,000 people were asked to view several political ads, with analysis finding that “America” ranked the...
On Monday, the Charlotte City Council voted unanimously to invalidate the LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance that helped pave the way for North Carolina’s controversial "bathroom bill."
This bill – known formally as House Bill 2 (HB2) –...
This morning, my fiance and I were talking about the Trump presidency and I had one of those "wait, how did we end up here" moments.
Working side by side writing, as we do every day, we...
It's becoming more and more apparent that Donald Trump's obstinate refusal to acknowledge that Russian hackers tried to influence the election has left him on an island. Any doubt that the Donald is almost completely...
Sanity has finally prevailed in the eight-month standoff over the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Army Corps of Engineers has announced that it will not grant an easement that would have allowed the pipeline to skirt...
It's been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for the North Carolina Republican Party. On Monday, the State Board of Elections ordered the rejection of all county-level challenges to voter eligibility, cutting the...
One of the few bright spots for the Democrats on Election Night came from my state of North Carolina. Specifically, the governor's race. Democratic state attorney general Roy Cooper nosed out Republican incumbent Pat McCrory, but...
It’s pretty common for college grads to have pride for their most accomplished alumni. The graduating class of '97 at St. Mark’s School of Texas showed that one of their classmates was deserving of shame...
Art Sisneros of Texas is one of the electors in the famed Electoral College. He is also a Republican. That means that he signed a pledge to vote for the winner of the popular vote in...
You may recall that last week, the people on a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Allentown, Pennsylvania were treated to an ugly display. Before the plane took off, one of the passengers revealed himself to...
Back in 1997, a San Antonio woman was sentenced to decades in prison for leading a gang-rape of her two young nieces. However, the case fell apart after one of the victims said she had been...
Donald Trump (in)famously vowed that if he becomes president, this country would start using enhanced interrogation techniques once again--including waterboarding. He seemed to come to his senses before doubling down on that vow later in...
Just hours after President-elect Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential race, students at Maple Grove High School in Maple Grove, Minnesota returned to class to find racist messages scrawled throughout the school. Messages that appear...
For most of the last few days, Nevada has whipsawed between blue and red on FiveThirtyEight's map. However, there is a very tangible sign that things look a lot better for Hillary Clinton than Nate...
Ted Boutrous is a successful lawyer. He is a well known litigator in one of the country's most prestigious law firms. In fact, they've represented people like Mark Cuban and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
He's a good...
While the approval ratings of the President and those who want his job are always changing, most of America loves the first lady.
Of course there have been the ignorant racist idiots who just can't accept...
Anyone who wonders why we're making such a big deal about Donald Trump's 2005 tape should consider that by dismissing it as mere "locker room talk," Trump was effectively telling every man and boy in...
Earlier, I told you that a number of veteran religious right leaders are standing by Donald Trump even in the face of his outrageous comments about women from 2005. Apparently, respect for women doesn't matter...
You may recall that back in 2013, Laurel Bowman and Rachel Cryer, a lesbian couple in Portland, wanted to get a wedding cake from a baker in nearby Gresham--only to have the bakers tell them...
DeSoto, Texas, is a suburb of Dallas, and the majority of residents who live there are African American. Last Friday night, the cheerleaders from the high school football game between DeSoto and Cedar Hills high schools...
