Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Can Local Lawmakers Stop The Spread Of Drones?
Two New York Assemblymen have introduced bills that would sharply limit the use of drones by law enforcement agencies in the state.
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The NRA's Plan For Our Schools: More Guns
The NRA introduced “model legislation” for placing armed guards in schools, a process which will rely on the same background checks the organization vehemently opposes.
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Secret Files Expose the Global Impact of Offshore Tax Havens
In what's being dubbed the biggest document leak since Wikileaks, a cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of politicians, con men and the mega-rich the world over.
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Why Did 28,000 Rivers in China Suddenly Disappear?
Pollution is destroying China's limited resources.
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U.S. Sees Highest Poverty Spike Since the 1960s
20 per cent of the country’s children are now classified as poor.
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Exclusive: Interview with the Widow of Tunisia’s Slain Popular Leader
Basma Khalfaoui, whose husband Chokri Belaid of the Popular Front was gunned down in February, talks about freedoms and the future of Tunisia.
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Utah's Students Forced to Push Fossil Fuel Propaganda for Earth Day
Some Utahns are outraged that the Utah Division of Oil, Gas & Mining sponsored an Earth Day poster contest extolling the virtues of oil, gas and mining.
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Top Senator Apologizes for Monsanto Protection Act
Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland released a statement apologizing to the public for the passing of the Monsanto Protection Act, stating the legislation was buried deep in a government spending bill to "prevent a government shutdown."
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Petition Power: More than 330,000 Reject Holder's “Too Big to Jail”
Activists on Tuesday delivered more than 330,000 signatures to U.S. Department of Justice offices calling on the Obama Administration to reject Eric Holder’s declaration that some financial institutions are too big to jail.
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Healthcare Lottery: May the Odds be Ever in Your Favor
Tennessee holds “health care lotteries” to ration Medicaid health insurance to the nearly 200,000 uninsured residents.
