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,...
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...
These is no shortage of people who claim the United States is the best place to do just about everything.
From growing up, going to school, working, vacationing, to retiring, there is no better locale under...
So much for "America first."
It should come as no surprise, but since Donald Trump took office one year ago, the world's confidence in America's leadership has declined.
According to a new Gallup poll, the United States...
There is no shortage of critics of the Republican "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act;" i.e., the tax bill that hands $1.5 trillion in permanent tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy like President Trump and his ilk.
Even Sen. Marco...
Last week, the World Inequality Lab released its first report based on the World Wealth and Income Database (WID). Constructed in part by famous economist Thomas Piketty, the report released at the Paris School of Economics....
"You say you want a revolution?"
Well, it might not be far off.
That is according to a study published in Nature tracing characteristics of history's most consequential revolutions.
Using a rubric called the Gini coefficient, scientists from Washington State University and...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said:
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
One of the promises President Donald Trump made on the campaign trail was to deny millions of refugees admission to...
From Harvey Weinstein to Charlie Rose, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) to Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), recent workplace sexual misconduct allegations have dominated daily headlines.
Amid all the high-profile accusations, though, it's easy to forget one environment...
On Thursday, President Donald Trump issued a speech attempting to characterize his legislative goals and tax cut bill as "populist." Despite significant contradictory analysis, the president claimed his efforts negativity affect wealthy individuals and aids...
Please note: The opinions that appear in this article are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Liberal America.
The advent of numerous mass shootings and devastating homicide rates show a...
The United States of America made history again last weekend.
With two more months left in the year, we experienced our 308 mass shooting.
On Sunday, a gunman walked into the First Baptist Church in Sutherland, Texas and...
815 million people around the world went hungry last year.
This, according to the latest data from the United Nations, is the first increase in global hunger in more than 15 years.
Sweeping initiatives from nations all...
Here is something you will not hear in the American mainstream media:
"The chance of 'catastrophic' climate change completely wiping out humanity by 2100 is now 1-in-20."
That is a headline from the British Daily Mail, reporting a recent...
It might not appear so with all the controversy swirling around President Donald Trump's nascent administration, and who knows how long it's going to last under Trump, but according to Tuesday's Census Bureau report, in 2015,...
With Hurricanes Irma and Harvey devastating the Gulf Coast in recent weeks, most Americans are recognizing these new “super storms” for what they are: evidence of climate change negatively impacting our world.
Scientists warned that these...
In a time when our electoral process is under attack like never before, it's encouraging to see some local and state governments doing right by the citizens they represent.
The 2016 presidential election demonstrated the lowest...
A new poll released by Public Policy Polling shows that most of President Donald Trump's core group of supporters feel discriminated against.
The poll asked respondents which race likely was on the receiving end of most discrimination...
Though you can't count on him for much, there are at least two things you can depend on when it comes to President Donald Trump. The first is that he's likely to do something incredibly embarrassing...
Despite the solar industry outpacing fossil fuel companies, growing 12 times faster than the overall economy, we may never shake our national addiction to fossil fuels so long as we continue to subsidize big oil...
