By Mike King shutterstock_321867671 As the media and state response to the recent attacks in San Bernardino have illustrated, premeditated political violence in the U.S. today only gets labelled…

By Joan Walsh Supporters at a campaign rally for Donald Trump on December 5, 2015, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall) The image of the United States as a broadly prosperous middle-class…

The latest poll on the GOP presidential candidate’s derby now has Texas Senator Ted Cruz steaming past prior front-runner Donald Trump in the crucial first out the box Iowa primary…
By: Danielle C. Belton Barack Obama is going to be in the history books. This will happen regardless of his critics or his fans, both of which are legion. It…
By: Charles D. Ellison So, there’s nothing new about a spoiled rich white dude saying crazy things so he can get a bump in a poll. On real, tell us…
By Dr Tennyson Joseph This is the 2nd occasion in about three years on which I have been invited to serve on a Panel organised by the Cuban Embassy to…
By Julia Craven The Washington Post via Getty Images BALTIMORE — “Stunning” was the only word Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) could find to describe one of Charm City’s most poverty-stricken…
Terrance Heath By Terrance Heath House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslim immigration to the U.S. by saying, “this is not who we are as…
By: Danielle C. Belton Barack Obama is going to be in the history books. This will happen regardless of his critics or his fans, both of which are legion. It…
By V.P. Franklin The article “John Hope Franklin: Race and the Meaning of America” by Harvard University’s Drew Gilpin Faust in the 17 December 2015 issue of the New York…
By Nadia Prupis Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (Photo: Noticia al Día) Venezuela’s right wing won a majority of seats in the country’s National Assembly on Sunday, signalling a major political…
By Lauren McCauley Demonstrators protest the shooting of Laquan McDonald along the Magnificent Mile in Chicago on Nov. 27, 2015. (Photo: Joshua Lott/Getty Images) Demonstrators protest the shooting of Laquan…