What will our two candidates do over the next four years if elected: Romney and Obama?
Class warfare has been acknowledged as the driving force behind political and economic policy by the 99% for years now, explicitly so since the Occupy movement was founded last year.
Joining forces in killing Robin Hood, the Ryan-Romney budget is the single largest transfer of wealth from middle and low-income earners to millionaires and billionaires in our country’s history.
Do you want to know what war is? It is a 19-year-old kid who is drafted by his government to serve in a war he doesn’t understand.
I am one of those unusual anomalies you find when thinking of political and ideological combinations: a male feminist. I proudly follow and support feminist voices, organisations, individuals and legislation in Britain, as well as the international feminist movements (such as increasing awareness of the Republican Party's war on…
Marriage equality is arguably the civil rights issue of our day. Since the Stonewall Riots of 1969, which opened the closet door on a history of oppression and rejection for the American LGBT community, great progress has been made, but not enough. California’s Prop 8 story epitomizes the battle…
Every day I sit out of the workforce, the harder it will be for me to find a job because of the stigma that is currently swirling in our society: unemployed folks are a bunch of deadbeat, lazy, trifling individuals looking for a handout.
This past June the Supreme Court overturned mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for minors on the grounds that it constituted “cruel and unusual punishment” under the 8th amendment. This comes on the heels of similar humanitarian rulings, such as getting rid of the death penalty for…
Circumcision (the removal of some or all of the foreskin of a male's penis) made headlines again in Cologne, Germany this week where a court ruled it illegal to circumcise an infant for religious reasons regardless of parental consent. This new law was apparently brought on by the case…
I became aware of the “Stonewall Riots” through Pride marches and protests while growing up in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s.