A recent study by Princeton University shows that American democracy is under attack by rich people and corporate interests that have an ever increasingly powerful grip on U.S. government policy, that public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law. The study, entitled Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, was published […]
The problems in Baltimore didn’t begin with the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who suffered a spinal cord injury earlier this month after being arrested by city police. As widespread violence, chaos and looting overtook the city in the wake of Gray’s funeral service on Monday, civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson stated […]
Last Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) appeared on The Daily Show and talked with Jon Stewart about the ongoing problem of corruption in Washington, D.C. noting that the system works “”to make sure that the tender fannies of the rich and the powerful are always carefully protected.” Warren went on to detail what Vox called […]
A recent report by Capital New York claims that for the past ten years, thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages related to police brutality have been occurring and can be traced directly to the New York Police Department. The report says in part, “Computer users identified by Capital as working on the NYPD headquarters’ network […]
Meet freshman Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) the now infamous alleged author of the Republican open-letter to Iran. As Huffington Post reported back in January, Cotton proved to be “one of the most hardline foreign policy hawks” in the Senate less than a month into his first term as U.S. senator. During an appearance on CNN, […]