Op-Ed

Over two hundred people gathered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio on Friday for the nation's first-ever organized mass protest against powerful right-wing think tank ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. …

Ruby B. White, 91, was a client of a hospice-care provider in 2007 that depended partly on Medicare for funding. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad / The New York Times) …

(Photo: funky pancake/Flickr) As Congress members return from recess this week and resume their budget battles, I hope they will be meek, cautious and circumspect. I hope …

When the debate over the fiscal 2012 budget began, the country — or, more accurately, the media — was focused on Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) proposal. Introduced on behalf …

The House is scheduled to vote tomorrow on HR 3, a bill that will provide additional bans on abortion funding, including removing tax credits for any insurance plan that …

“The word ‘public’ has been removed from the name of the Fort Worth Library. Why? Simply put, to keep up with the times.” —From the Media release on the …

On Sunday evening, regular programming and routine weekend affairs were interrupted so that the Commander in Chief could announce the successful murder of Osama Bin Laden, the alleged evil …

Before we get to the bombshell news, the takeaway from this story first: not everyone in the Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is corrupt. And in the end …

Cemetery near Ypres, France. (Photo: goforchris / flickr) What if, from the beginning, everyone killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars had been buried in a single …