Counseling center shutdown teaches important health care lessons
A right-wing governor has used an unreliable study and nonexistent federal requirements to replace local, community-based, nonprofit health care providers with out-of-state for-profit companies.
The annual budget kabuki is not kabuki this year
For the past several years the winter months in Washington have been consumed in political showdowns over the federal budget.
Documents expose new ALEC scheme to kill clean energy
"It is clear ALEC is working in secret to push state policies in an extreme right direction, but working families are standing up to this agenda."
Latino voters' relevance in mid-term elections examined
"Where do these Latinos stand on immigration reform? How do they feel on the debate over it so far? We decided to explore their views."
Texas Senate enacts harsh new anti-abortion laws
The Texas Senate voted 19-11 for harsh anti-abortion measures that include a 20-week ban on abortions, with no exemptions for rape or incest.
Jailed for justice at July 8th’s Moral Monday
Over 4,000 North Carolinians came together during the first day of the workweek to protest and participate in acts of civil disobedience.
White House warns GOP on immigration reform
The White House warned Republican lawmakers not to block a comprehensive immigration reform bill just to appease "far-right" conservatives.
Immigration reform threatened in the House
This week, immigration reform advocates face some of their biggest hurdles ever.
Wisconsin Democrats’ strategy debate could ripple nationwide
The bottom line reality is how "this Republican state budget reeks from top to bottom."
Supreme Court guts Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court today gutted the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 decision. Before the ink even dried on today's landmark ruling its implications quickly became stunningly clear.
