Fifty-five years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. Before that, Americans of all races had risked their lives trying to help African Americans exercise their right to vote.
Trump’s most recent actions have actually rewarded Putin and supported Russia’s geopolitical goals.
Only African Americans have lived with nearly four centuries of the law being used not to protect rights but to suppress an entire people based on their race.
Trump is arguably the only president in American history who lacks the capacity to feel empathy—or even the ability to fake it.
In the coming weeks and months, we might discover that The Establishment turns out to be the bulk of the Democratic voters.
Can anyone say with a straight face that these Republicans would have voted ‘not guilty’ had President Obama done the exact same things as Trump?
Many Republican members of the legislative branch are acting as if their job is to protect the leader of the executive branch.
Israel’s Arab minority does not enjoy the same socioeconomic opportunities or civic equality with the Jewish majority.
While the Constitution guarantees a right to firearms ownership, no right is absolute, not even the right to bear arms.”
Major cities in every European country I have visited have some sort of light rail and are connected to one another by train.
The purpose of the census is not to divide citizen from non-citizen, but to count every person.
People who commit domestic violence, make public threats of violence, or demonstrate suicidal tendencies should, with due process, be disarmed.
I could never bring myself to call him by his first name. To me, he will always be “Sen. Lugar.”
We have formal separation of powers and constitutional checks and balances, a republican form of government that was designed to restrain the passions of the majority.
Sweden is a prime example of the hybrid political-economic system known as the social democratic welfare state.
Congressional members of the party Trump now leads have largely abdicated their duty to protect our constitutional system.
