Politics

Big words, like good and evil, come with lots of emotional baggage, little of which stands up to logical scrutiny. The rhetoric of evil drags terms from old-time religion and serves the political class by oversimplifying moral and political complexity, a kind of instant moral sound bite. Is money really evil? Or all of capitalism? Or the western world as if personifies only the worst of humanity? What applies to individual morality works much less well with abstract institutions.

ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an “on demand” process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport.

This is the lowest level for oil since 2003.

So long as we continue to allow private money into electoral politics, there will never be the foundation for a true democracy...

Regardless of immigration status or increased agency authority – child abuse remains a federal felony.

Pompeo’s speech was interrupted by CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin, who held a sign reading, ”OAS: Don’t Support a Coup in Venezuela.”

Terrorists need to be stopped, and that requires robust intelligence gathering, strong policing, and selective military action.

The Republican party’s evangelist views could be detrimental to the LGBTQ community.

Clinton's only ahead of Sanders thanks to 6 Deep South states irrelevant in November.

The menu of the news, as presently defined, lowers your chance of understanding the world.