Flo Matheson, a candidate for Congress in Tennessee, has spoken out before about legalizing marijuana. However, she is now in some related legal trouble; she was caught with 180 marijuana plants on her property.
She denies...
Former Auschwitz guard, 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning, has spoken out about his experiences at the death camp and is facing trial. He worked at the camp from 1942-1944, and he has been accused of being an...
Politicians on the right love to say that the United States was conceived as being a ?Christian nation,? and that the Founding Fathers were all devout Christians. But the truth is much more nuanced than...
Here's a little Oscar trivia now that the 86th Academy Awards are behind us. In 1940, actress, comedian, and singer-songwriter Hattie McDaniel (1895 - 1952) became the first African American to not only be nominated...
This series of photographs -- found at The Best Stuff Online -- shows 100-year-old Czechs transitioned into photos of their younger selves.?This animation was made from interactive elements on Czech news site?Aktu?ln?, where you can...
In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain;
He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.
Most people remember that poem from elementary school. It has a catchy rhyme...
In the more than seven years since Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, he's faced obstructionism, racism, hatred, and fear-mongering as the first president of color. That scary man born to a foreign,...
There are some places in our world that we can all picture in our minds. For those of us who do not live close by, or have not visited them, we tend to have a...
Welcome to the fourth issue of Liberal America's Sunday Spin. In each issue you'll find the highlights from the week, which includes the latest on politics, the economy, activism, the environment, and even a few...
Earlier this month, I reported about President Barack Obama's visit to Hiroshima during his trip to Asia this week. He is the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima since World War II.
Seventy-one years ago, we...
