When state Senator Jean Schodorf read the article in Sunday’s Wichita Eagle about her announcement that she’s leaving the Kansas Republican Party, and saw herself quoted as saying “There’s no room for people who actually think in moderation,” she probably shrugged her shoulders, figuring that informed readers will understand ...

Tumblr sent convention correspondents to cover the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Here’s Tumblr correspondent Meg Lanker-Simons on attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. Monday: Arriving in Wonderland After cramming every passenger possible on board United Flight 741, departing Denver International Airport, the bored-looking flight crew began playing the instructional safety video. ...

Cindy Sheehan is brave and determined. She's stood up to George W. Bush, gotten arrested, and done her best to keep the anti-war community alive during the Obama years. All of those things turned out to be easier than working with Roseanne Barr. Barr, the multimillion dollar celebrity who bought the Peace ...

As a society we have allowed our children to believe they are all not just above average but superior. Because we’re afraid to hurt anyone’s fragile egos, or not be loved, or because we’re afraid of some nebulous retaliation if we aren’t soft, we dish out A’s and B’s as if ...

We'll keep this quick and to the point: If you like weekends, safe working conditions, and a host of other protections, thank labor unions. If you like labor unions, thank the IWW, the SP, Eugene Debs, Joe Hill, the Matewan strikers, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and the communist ...

The following is a Labor Day editorial by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.  I welcome and endorse the AFL-CIO’s campaign to finally fulfill President Roosevelt’s 1944 call for a second, Economic Bill of Rights, including the rights to jobs, living wages, labor unions, voting rights, health care, education, and retirement ...

Almost every conservative political columnist, pundit, commentator, blogger, and bloviator has written about the decline and forthcoming death of the labor movement. They happily point to Wisconsin, where Republican Gov. Scott Walker shortly after taking office in January 2011 took advantage of a Republican majority in the House and Senate to ...

Dear Thad: Let me begin by explaining that I don’t get off on pornography. Watching other people have sex doesn't make me horny; at most it makes me curious. Rather, I am writing you concerning the very vexing question of why I get off watching a representation of me getting off. My partner was ...

Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti At the dawn of the 21th Century, humanity undergoes a renewal of understanding that is manifested in the use of reason more that of dogma. The advance of science has lighted gray areas in which beliefs were the only way to “explain” life. Today we see people in ...