A month after Newtown, here comes a new shooting app—“NRA: Practice Range.” That’s right, it’s from those same tone-deaf folks who blamed video games
Get re-elected. Resign immediately. Go to work for a lobbying group. Repeat.
Political manipulation and cynicism hit a new low in December 2012, when, just 30 days after being re-elected, Jo Ann Emerson, the ten-term Congressperson
Kingsolver’s new novel, Flight Behavior , delivers a powerful sermon on climate change
I’ve been listening to Barbara Kingsolver read her new novel, Flight Behavior, on my car CD player, and I have to wonder what the
What evaluation of NFL referees and teachers have in common
The “real” NFL officials are back, but that doesn’t mean that all will be well. One of the key areas of contention in the
Playing chicken with the debt ceiling: So dangerous, even Reagan wouldn’t go there
$18.9 billion. That’s what the 2011 debt-limit standoff and the threatened U.S. credit default will be costing taxpayers in higher interest payments over the
Progressive victories in 2012
As the Republican party and “leadership” moves farther and farther out of the mainstream and deeper into the realm of extreme, irrational, anti-democracy, backward-facing,
Why “The Impossible” makes me think about healthcare
I went to see the movie The Impossible the other day and have since been thinking about how it relates to our situation here
Chicago’s undemocratic, corrupt, parking-privatization nightmare
This year I spent the holidays in Chicago where I once lived for two decades. When I left Chicago in 2000, parking meters cost
Gun lobby pushes silencers “to protect children’s hearing”
How many more loved ones will become victims of gun violence before we’re angry enough to turn off the television, put aside our laptops
Corporate pork: the secret ingredient in the fiscal-cliff recipe
Once upon a time, a President or Congressional leader trying to get a bill passed would use earmarks—also known as “pork”—to buy votes from