Tuesday was the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court case that re-wrote the political landscape.
On January 21, 2010, the nation's highest court handed down its ruling on the controversial Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission...
Raising the minimum wage will not just help the economy.
It will not just help lift people out of poverty or prevent some from descending into it.
According to a Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health study, raising the...
One of the ways Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, and ultimately the White House in 2016, was his opposition to other GOP contenders on Medicare, Social Security, healthcare, and the Iraq war.
While the other Republicans–Jeb Bush,...
Donald Trump has again managed to capture the news cycle by bringing us to the brink of World War III.
While the media is focused on the dangerous distraction Trump is using Iran to create, it...
Donald Trump has not been a complete failure as president.
Rollbacks of environmental regulations and gains achieved under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare); shout-outs to white supremacists; rewards to supporters with cabinet positions; cuts to education...
Just after election day in 2016, Donald Trump stated in a 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl he planned on refusing the $400,000 presidential salary.
He claimed he didn't even know what the salary is, and conceded,...
Last month, Donald Trump was dealt a significant blow when New York Supreme Court Judge Saliann Scarpulla ordered he pay two million dollars to settle a claim he used his theoretically eleemosynary Donald J. Trump Foundation as a...
One of the ways Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, and ultimately the White House, in 2016 was his opposition to other GOP contenders on Medicare, Social Security, healthcare, and the Iraq war.
While the other Republican candidates...
His looming impeachment is arguably the least of Donald Trump's problems.
Once he's out of the White House, he must contend with a fraudulent financial situation that could land him in prison.
On Tuesday, the New York-based...
The walls are closing in on Donald Trump.
Not only is the impeachment inquiry moving so swiftly House Democrats anticipate an impeachment vote by Christmas.
Last week Trump was dealt another blow when New York Supreme Court...
Donald Trump is moving.
No, not out of the White House.
Not yet. (It's coming.)
Like millions of septuagenarians, he's relocating to Florida because New York is just too damn expensive.
According to documents filed with the Palm Beach...
U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim handed down a contempt of court ruling for United States Education Department Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday.
Earlier this month, Kim ordered a lawsuit to go “full-steam ahead” after the DeVos-led Education...
"I’m not sending anyone to jail yet, but it’s good to know I have that ability."
This is what U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim reportedly told Education Department lawyers last week about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Kim...
How much more than you does your boss make?
That all depends, of course, on many factors: whether your job is unionized, the industry you're in, whether you work in the public or the private sector.
Chances...
In June, Donald Trump instilled fear in thousands after announcing mass Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and round-ups of undocumented Americans.
Then in a classic reality show-style bait and switch to appear bi-partisan, he abruptly...
An effective way of dividing up an electorate is to separate the "right" from the "left," "liberals" from "conservatives," "liberals" from "progressives," "centrists" from "progressives," "alternative" from "mainstream."
This is no more evident than in the...
Donald Trump is not the only government official accepting help from Russia.
Russia is conducting business as we speak right in Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's state of Kentucky.
Aluminum manufacturer Braidy Industries is planning to build...
In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt acquired the sobriquet "trust buster" after relying on the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act to break up the Northern Securities Company monopoly dominating railroad routes from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest.
Massachusetts senator...
Everyone can afford to buy advertising space on billboards in order to spread his or her political views, right?
Everyone can buy political influence, right?
That's exactly the situation that permitted Texas-based conservative advocacy group, the Job Creators...
Ever get into it with someone over something in the news?
In today's media climate, one person involved in that conversation is inevitably going to take a swipe at the "liberal bias" networks like CNN and MSNBC reportedly espouse.
Although its grip...