It was the end of period three, the last of three classes in a row before I had a break.
The teaching assistant assigned to some students in that class walked up to me at the...
If you're a Californian, September 14 is an important day.
That's the day republicans hope to unseat Democratic governor Gavin Newsome in a special recall election.
Citing the administration's policies regarding taxes, immigration, homelessness, and the state's...
The 2020 Census data is in, with both encouraging and disconcerting results.
First, the good news.
The country has gotten more diverse.
According to Nicholas Jones, the Census Bureau's Population Division director of race, ethnicity, research and outreach:
"These...
President Joe Biden addressed the nation Monday about the events unfolding in Afghanistan.
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No sooner did Taliban forces begin overrunning the beleaguered Middle Eastern country when critics both left and right of the political spectrum started...
Two years ago, news broke about evidence confirming Russian buyers used Facebook advertising as propaganda leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
In response, Facebook presented Congress 3,000 Russian-purchased ads through 470 phony pages and accounts intended to exploit America's racial divisions.
Facebook said...
Right-wing extremist groups are on the rise.
Although one might be tempted to assume their activity is confined mostly to social outcasts languishing in their basements on 4Chan message boards, recently leaked membership data from the neo-Confederate...
In the 1930s, our 32nd president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, embarked on a bold initiative.
Lifting the nation from the Great Depression's doldrums required more than peace-meal policies that basically kept the system humming along as it...
Ballot counting began Monday for 5,800 Amazon fulfillment center workers in Bessemer, Alabama attempting to unionize with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU).
If successful, it will be the first Amazon warehouse to unionize,...
After forty long years, Reaganomics might finally be on its last leg.
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden promised to raise taxes on Americans making more than $400,000 a year.
Those familiar with Biden's moderate past understandably...
Provide federal assistance to low-income communities
Protect Social Security
Grant asylum to refugees
Expand the federal minimum wage
Improve and expand unemployment benefits
Strengthen labor laws to make it easier for workers to join...
"This legislation represents the boldest action taken on behalf of the American people since the Great Depression."
"This is seismic legislation."
This how House Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Pete Aguilar and House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal...
Republican state legislatures all over the country are aggressively trying to make voting harder.
As the Brennan Center for Justice reports, currently 28 states have 106 pending bills to restrict access to ballot boxes.
Contrast this to...
There are 224 state-level ballot-qualified political parties in the United States.
Most are obscure.
We like to believe we can vote for whomever we want in the United States, yet because we do not practice a parliamentary system nor a national-level system of proportional representation,...
Texas is synonymous with the oft-cited American ethos of "rugged individualism".
But perhaps that obstinance has finally come at a dangerous and expensive cost.
As President Joe Biden on Saturday approved a major disaster declaration for Texas after...
Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders stated findings in a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report indicate the Democratic party has a clear shot at bypassing Senate Republican obstruction in order to raise the federal...
As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised to get control of the COVID-19 pandemic with robust federal intervention and oversight--two qualities the Trump administration did not believe were necessary.
Days before being sworn in, Biden...
After Joe Biden was elected, South Dakota Sen. John Thune said:
“The one thing that concerns me that nobody seems to be talking about anymore is the massive amount of debt that we continue to rack...
One week into the Biden presidency, the Democratically controlled Senate is facing its first procedural hurdle.
Despite a raft of executive orders setting him apart from his predecessor, and despite Democrats now holding a narrow congressional majority,...
Only three presidents have been impeached in American history: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998, and Donald Trump in 2019.
After Wednesday's treasonous coup attempt at the Capitol for which Donald Trump is undeniably culpable, there...
Donald Trump and his “elite strike force” have failed at overturning the Electoral College-certified election.
Every federal court to which Trump's lawyers have brought legal challenges intended to steal Joe Biden’s victory has backfired.
So that's it,...