It is abundantly clear to anyone visiting California this year that the state is in the midst of a catastrophe. The Central Valley is...

As the battle for control of the Senate rages on, the American public grows eager for polling data to reveal which politician leads in a...

The 113th United States Congress has earned the dubious distinction of the least popular in recent history. As recently as August 2014,...

Mayor Bill de Blasio won New York City’s mayoralty as “the liberal progressive” candidate, vowing to divert from the previous...

The city of Detroit is an easy target for those who like to scoff at government mismanagement. Over the last decade it has been...

Anyone who has ever lost, destroyed, or never received his or her birth certificate  knows that the only way to obtain a replacement copy...

Mass incarceration has found a comfortable home in the underbelly of American life. It slips through the cracks of democratic oversight...

On November 4th,weapon owners in Texas will be able to hit the polls using their concealed handgun licenses as voter identification —...

On the surface, Senator Mary Landrieu seems to have all the strengths needed to survive as a Democrat in a red state: long experience in...

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown — an unarmed black teen — was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer, Darren...

“We are not going to be talking about polar bears and butterflies,” said political strategist Chris Lehane, “We are going to be talking...

“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,”...

Politicians like data. But trends are a different story — harder to confuse and more difficult to misapply, trends can spell out dire...

“You see homes in New Mexico where you have a crucifix and a picture of JFK on the wall, and now, President Clinton,” says New Mexico...

Taking a case all the way to trial is usually a hard, expensive and exhausting process.  Obtaining an audience in federal court is often...

During the 1990’s a team of researchers operating in the Mediterranean Sea discovered a mass stranding of beaked whales, a behavior...

Last Monday outside an Egyptian courtroom, families wept and women fainted after a judge passed down a mass death sentence to more than...

Over the weekend a tape of Donald Sterling making racist statements was released. Sterling owns the L.A. Clippers basketball franchise....

The Internet was born in the United States as a project of the US Department of Defense and has always enjoyed a close relationship with...

The two largest sports events of the year come with much fanfare: The NFL’s Super Bowl is famous for multi-million dollar advertisements...