On February 14, 2013, the 89-year-old senator from New Jersey, Frank Lautenberg, announced he would not run for reelection in 2014. Although the move had been long suspected
Immigration has always played an important role in the development of California over the last two centuries. Today, immigrants represent a major portion of the California's electorate and
I had to wait a day longer than most people to start being outraged about America's new wiretapping scandal. I learned about the government’s nefarious deeds yesterday
The list of government waste, scandal, and secrecy seems to be mounting, with news this week of a recent governmental order requiring Verizon to provide the National Security Agency with
Research organizations are digging deep into why student debt is on the rise and if it's significantly hurting graduates' ability to be financially sound. The federal student
According to a Pentagon report released in May, 1.2 percent of active duty male service members have been victims of military sexual trauma (MST). That breaks down to approximately
According to the latest survey by Pew Research, independent voters who support expanding marriage rights to gay couples is steadily rising. Jumping from 52 percent in 2012 to 57 percent
Unconstitutional Acts of the NSA
I have been a Verizon Wireless customer since late 2001. You can imagine my disdain then, not at Verizon, but at the federal government that
I got in trouble and was threatened with expulsion from high school for doing something right, not something wrong; what I wrote was good, proper journalism (see preceding post). There
This spring, a wide range of issues dominated American political discussion, from gun law reform to North Korea, from immigration to gay rights. Yet, a very important subject has escaped
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The California agency in charge of toxic regulation announced last Thursday that it had failed to collect $185 million in repayments owed by polluters. The California Department
The parties in Field v. Bowen, one of the legal challenges to the nonpartisan top-two primary in California, reached a settlement over the amount of attorney's fees
