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  1. Mitt’s Mississippi Disconnect Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shakes hands during a campaign stop at the Port of Pascagoula, Miss. March 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
    3 Mar 2012 … Mitt Romney says we'd be "a lot better off" if Washington took governmental lessons from... the poorest state in America. Come again? Continue reading
  2. America: What Went Wrong? (Part One) The Philadelphia Inquirer, America, economy
    4 Apr 1992 … This program provides a powerful examination of the forces contributing to the dismantling of the American economy. The program is based on the research of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. Continue reading
  3. Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State A TV screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden at a shopping mall in Hong Kong Sunday, June 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
    2 Feb 2014 … What will it take to change a democracy driven by fear? Continue reading
  4. Now White People Are Dying From Our Terrible Economic Policies, Too
    11 Nov 2015 … As the “middle class” hollows out, whites who started life under relatively promising circumstances are finally seeing the floor fall out under them. Continue reading
  5. Where Have All the Children Gone? Alia and Basma, both 12, tackle a math question at a temporary school in northern Lebanon, set up by UNICEF and Lebanese NGO Beyond Association with the help of UK aid. (Photo by DFID - UK Department for International Development | Flickr CC 2.0)
    7 Jul 2017 … “This is a war against normal life.” So said CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward, describing the situation at this moment in Syria, as well as in other parts of the Middle East. It was one of those remarks that should wake you up Continue reading
  6. Nobody Expects a Monty Python Fourth of July Monty Python Receiving a Standing Ovation at the End of the Show. 'Monty Python Live (Mostly)' at The O2 Arena, London, Britain - 01 Jul 2014 Celebrities joined an audience of 14,000 people to watch the surviving members of comedy troupe Monty Python perform together in the UK for the first time in more than 40 years this evening Stars including comedian Stephen Fry and screenwriter Richard Curtis packed into The O2 arena in London for the first night of the eagerly awaited, multi-million pound show. Many members of the audience even dressed as characters from the comedy sketch show, with some wearing handkerchiefs on their heads to look like Gumbys. (Rex Features via AP Images)
    7 Jul 2014 … A nostalgic London trip for fun reminds that the power of money in politics corrupts both our democracies. Continue reading
  7. What President Obama Needs To Do in Flint Unloading bottled water in Flint
    5 May 2016 … Finally. If the crisis engulfing Flint, Michigan, had occurred in one tragic swoop, had the hard-bitten city been hit with a Superstorm Sandy or a Hurricane Katrina, the president of the United States would not have taken two years to Continue reading
  8. Call and Promise Abraham departs to Canaan
    11 Nov 1996 … When God chooses Abraham to found a dynasty, how does Abraham react? Scholar Robert Alter; law professor Azizah Y. al-Hibri; novelist Bharati Mukherjee; community activist Eugene Rivers III; theologians Lewis B. Smedes and Burton L. Visotzky; and playwright-composer Elizabeth Swados Continue reading
  9. My Sister Served in the Army. The Biggest Threat to Her Survival is Congress. Military service men and women and military academies join veterans for New York City's annual Veteran's Day parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Nov. 11, 2016. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … My older sister, Lynn, was always getting into trouble when we were kids. I was the goody two-shoes in the family, but if I did ever get myself in trouble, she’d get in even more trouble to help me out. Continue reading
  10. DOJ to Texas: Voter Suppression Will Not Stand Attorney General Eric Holder, left, attends a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 31, 2013, in observance of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
    8 Aug 2013 … The Department of Justice announced today that it is objecting to Texas’ voter ID law and will also seek to join a similar lawsuit against the state’s redistricting maps. Continue reading