Protesters worry that the upcoming nationwide citizenship registry, for which everyone will be required to provide documentary evidence of citizenship, will be used to deprive Indian Muslims citizenship under the new law, leaving them stateless.

Our real problem isn't the length of a lawmaker's career, it's the literally untold billions of dollars--much of it in "dark," unreported money--from corporations and the super rich can buy access and influence in the government.

For Golden, he likely would have had a happier ending if he had just done the fully courageous thing....not the politically clever thing.

Instead of calcifying towards the most conservative positions, our culture has nearly inexorably bent toward inclusivity and respect.

Imagine a jury foreman coordinating with a criminal defendant and the defendant's legal team "to put the fix in" before the trial gets underway. That's what Mitch McConnell is promising now.

Now the Democratic voters who put Jeff Van Drew in that seat last year will be highly motivated by betrayal now to take him out of it.

Steyer and Need to Impeach should be carpet bombing the airwaves right now, putting the political screws to Republicans, making it politically impossible for them to continue their through-the-looking-glass, conspiracy-based defense of Trump.

Thanks to House Democrats, particularly Rep Sheila Jackson-Lee and legislation she's been shepherding this year, the nation has finally begun to have a long-past-due conversation on its history of chattel slavery--particularly how to make that history right for the descendants of slavery through reparations.

What is today's compelling need--the current rationale--for establishing a Space Force now?

Mister Rogers, Big Bird, and all of Big Bird's friends pointed us toward compassion. We are the ones who chose to turn away to a path of cruelty and divisiveness instead, as embodied by Donald Trump.