The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reports hate groups proliferating across the country increased to a record high of 1,020 in 2018.
Some of those hate groups are armed vigilantes posing as legitimate law enforcement.
Last week, the FBI arrested...
Twenty-two.
That's how many veterans on average commit suicide in the United States every day.
It's also the number of miles Navy veteran Thomas Zurhellen plans to walk each day on a trek across the country from...
Every month we are discovering more horrors to which we are subjecting people at our Southern border whose only crime is trying to gain asylum from violence responsible for tearing their countries and lives apart.
In...
A fourth asylum seeker has died in Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) custody.
The 40-year-old man, whose name media outlets are withholding, died at Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas after being diagnosed with flu-like...
Because of the Trump administration's draconian immigration policy, another Salvadoran transgender woman is dead.
31-year-old sex worker, Camila Díaz Córdova, applied for U.S. asylum in August 2017 due to death threats and extortion from the Barrio 18 gang, one...
We don't have to support either Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro or acting president Juan Guaido.
Both can be equally odious.
Our decision to insinuate ourselves on Guaido's side, however, has nothing to do with "overthrowing Socialism" or "bringing democracy."
It has to...
As the mainstream media spent the week fact-checking Donald Trump's string of State of the Union prevarications, there is one feature from Tuesday night's speech not getting enough attention.
In addition to joining other female lawmakers dressed...
Some believed, favorably or otherwise, that the landmark Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) case the Supreme Court decided in June would signal the death knell for public sector unions.
That fear is not baseless...
As far as electoral politics goes, New York is solidly in the “blue” category along with California, Washington, Oregon, Vermont, Minnesota, and Massachusetts.
But even though it predictably swings Democratic, since 2010 its legislature has been frustratingly...
The United States Constitution is of course not perfect.
It's full of anachronisms, elitism, and, yes, even racism.
Just look at the "three-fifths" clause contained in Article I, section two, for example.
Look at Article II, section one explaining the...
There is indeed a crisis at our Southern border with Mexico.
But it does not entail "caravans of illegals" bringing "drugs, crime, and terrorists."
The crisis involves the trauma we are inflicting on families by separating children...
A second migrant child detained at the United States’ Southern border in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody has died.
12 minutes before Christmas day, eight-year-old Guatemalan boy Felipe Gómez Alonzo succumbed to an undisclosed illness...
On Monday, a reporter asked Donald Trump how he felt seeing images of unarmed women and children fleeing border agents' tear gas attack on them.
Trump replied:
“I say, why are they there? First of all, the tear...
Donald Trump traveled to Tupelo, Mississippi Monday to endorse Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith a day before a runoff election pitting Hyde-Smith against Democrat Mike Espy.
And the racists responsible for hanging from trees at the State Capitol building...
The "blue wave" cometh!
Tuesday's mid-term election results were historic, to say the least.
Hopefully they are a harbinger of the progressive direction the nation is heading as we look ahead now to unseating Trump and company...
2018 mid-term elections are weeks away.
Are you registered to vote?
Do you know where your polling place is?
Why don't you take a moment to check.
Ten years ago the Republican party was licking its wounds after the...
Did Dallas, Texas police officer Amber Guyger accidentally park on the wrong floor of her South Side Flats apartment complex and enter Botham Jean's unlocked apartment assuming it was hers?
Did Guyger struggle with the lock before...
For the first time as President of the United States, Donald J. Trump is going to have to answer questions under oath.
But this doesn't have to do with former campaign manager Paul Manafort or Russian...
As primaries for November's mid-term elections happen all over the country, our attentions are again on election integrity.
We are all aware by now Russia had an enormous hand in influencing the outcome of 2016.
And although...
The end of June saw a pivotal moment in electoral history when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an obscure 28-year-old Democratic Socialist from the Bronx with no prior political experience upended the Democratic establishment by unseating incumbent Rep. Joe...
