Op-Ed

Rather than supporting effective policing techniques that can help to prevent crime, Conservatives are throwing millions of dollars at more high-tech things, like armor and weaponry for SWAT teams, …

May 21, 2009, Protecting Our System and Our Values speech by Obama: “So going forward, my administration will work with Congress to develop an appropriate legal regime” to handle …

Ronald Reagan said that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Notice he spoke of a problem (singular), but conservatives seem to believe government …

Paul Krugman: Austerians are finding that they're trapped in a box.

Jason Collins has announced to the world that he is a gay. This is a marvelous act. It is being congratulated by many including many NBA players and many …

The Obama administration has seemingly painted itself into yet another military corner by announcing that use of chemical weapons by Syria would constitute a red line that would mandate …

Glenn Greenwald's article in The Guardian titled “Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced” has internationally publicized the cowardly decision of …

Cancer cells don't know they are cancerous! Though this may be an obvious fact even a so what fact to many, if we think more critically about this we …

Cable news networks thrive on tragedy. That's nothing new. What is new is the incredible, monomaniacal programming mantra that has taken over CNN—the ever-more inane and dementia-addled granddaddy of …

In major cities across our nation, the range of prices for similar or the same medical procedures looks more like the ups and downs in the wildly volatile stock …