California School District Reverses Basketball Tournament Ban On 'I Can't Breathe' T-Shirts SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California school district on...
[ATTACH] But I am sure I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round . . . as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable,...
Whatever will the wingnuts do? How will they know what/who to be afraid of? How will they know what conspiracies are afoot?
Jesus died around the year 33. Thirty years later, the Romans began killing Jews in a more systematic way. Between 67 and 136, over the course of...
Obstacles to accountability exist at every stage of seeking justice.
Distance is essential to the defense and how Darren Wilson must demonstrate that he "reasonably feared for his safety." For 104 days, the...
Why don't Republicans get it? The 11 million illegal immigrants who have lived and raised families in the U.S. have become the latest millstone...
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Will the president’s turkey pardon start a wave of unauthorized poultry immigration? By Dahlia Lithwick [IMG] This is how it begins. Photo by...
WASHINGTON—In the wake of a grand jury’s divisive decision not to charge Ferguson, MO police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of...
FERGUSON, MO—Having reportedly enlisted friends and family members to help him board up his shopfront’s windows and reinforce its doors, sources...
The House speaker says he'll reappoint Rep. Trey Gowdy to head the select committee in the new Congress. There's just one catch »...
My "potential NQ targets" thread is of course about potential NQ targets, exclusive of any particular method or approach, apart from the reliance...
John Boehner says Barack Obama is damaging the presidency itself. John Boehner. The same John Boehner who has done more to divide and damage the...
In his first term, Dan Malloy enacted a hugely ambitious progressive agenda. This fall, he ran on that record—and won. Now he’s got some advice...
Dean Baker M.I.T. Professor Jonathan Gruber has inadvertently become a YouTube celebrity as a result of a video of him referring to the public...
The voting turnout in this year's congressional and gubernatorial elections was the lowest since 1942. Much of the story was in young people, poor...
BY ROB GARVER, The Fiscal Times Six years into the Obama presidency, one of the things we’ve learned about the current state of play in...
As progressives wring their hands over what Republican control of Congress will mean, many pundits are lookingto history for silver linings. The...
Dr. Ben Carson, who resigned from Fox News as a first step towards running for U.S. president, has been no stranger to controversial statements,...
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