Republicans pushed through the resolution last month that overturns Obama administration rules banning internet service providers, or ISPs, from sharing or selling “sensitive” data, like web browsing history and Social Security numbers, without customers’ explicit permission.

83 percent oppose the concept, according to the HuffPost/YouGov poll

Polarization being what it is, it’s rare for any political issue to face such an overwhelming rejection.

halted all U.S. grants to the United Nations Population Fund, an international humanitarian aid organization that provides reproductive health care and works to end child marriage and female genital cutting in more than 150 countries. 

“So I’m not quite frankly sure how you make this Kemp-Kasten determination with a straight face.”  

will pull $76 million from the UNFPA ― about 7 percent of its budget.

In our time, the United States suffers every day of the week because there are now so many marginalized people among us who don't understand the rules, who don't think that rules of personal or civil conduct apply to them, who have no notion of self-control.

Unlike, say, Sarah Palin in 2008, Trump appeared before the electorate in his own clothes, speaking his own words

f you voted for Donald Trump, you’d get Donald Trump, in all his Trumpery and Trumpiness.  

he preeminent cyber-prophet of the day

The next frontier—devices that can detect an authorized user based solely on the quirks of how they interact with it—is just around the bend.

Will new unlocking methods enjoy the same Fifth Amendment protections that prevent the government from forcing a person to give up their passwords?

May's Jobs Report: Very Disappointing

. Economists were expecting a modest 158,000 jobs to be added last month, meaning that May’s disappointing jobs report will almost surely be read as a sign of a slowing economy. It is the smallest number of jobs added in a monthly jobs report since 2010.

oughly 35,000 Verizon workers were on strike in the month of May, but they returned to work this week after an agreement between Verizon and its union was reached

Contrasting her track record as secretary of state with Trump’s lack of foreign-policy experience, Clinton made the case that the presumptive Republican nominee is, above all, unqualified to be president.

dangerously incoherent.

Her speech, delivered in San Diego, portrayed Trump, by turns, as menacing, reckless, comical, even p

ongressionally mandated analytical and statistical review of global terroris

m. It is important to understand how the U.S. government defines this subjective phenomenon:

overall decrease in global terrorism

The Republican Party has been taken over and remade in the image of Donald Trump, and the Democratic Party is likewise being reshaped by Bernie Sanders.

While the Republican Party continues to grapple with its Trump-fueled identity crisis, Democrats are poised to nominate Hillary Clinton

Democrats will be choosing as their avatar a candidate

the defunct real-estate education program created by presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump

I believe that Trump University was a fraudulent scheme

aggressive, ethically dubious business model that targeted potential customers’ financial fears and socioeconomic anxieties

for charity

never met Sanders.

Trump’s habit for verbal escapology

More than 60 percent of people in America’s overcrowded jails are there because they can’t afford to pay their bail amou

ipple effect

questions about America’s pretrial system and the way it affects the lives of unconvicted people.

opportunity to reconsider some of the myths surrounding the historic decision to use the atomic bomb

loss of 135,000 people made little impact on the Japanese military

Japan had been willing to sacrifice city after city to American conventional bombing in the months leading up to Hiroshima

AP reported, pushing the billionaire businessman over the 1,237-delegate threshold he needed to avoid a contested convention ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

former reality TV star

Trump would face either former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who are vying for the Democratic nomination

But I can't understand why you would support someone as hateful, sexist, racist and ignorant as Donald Trump.

It's not okay to marginalize an entire race of people, saying things like all the Mexicans are lazy, that they are all stealing our jobs and bringing drugs into our country.

We're all human. Some humans are really bad people. Some are really good. And it doesn't matter what color they are, it makes no difference whatsoever

researchers discovered the remnants of dozens of individuals buried under and around the stone ring

14 more women (and nine men) were excavated by researchers

"The archaeology now shows that as far as the burials go, women were as prominent there as men. This contrasts with the earlier burial mounds, where men seem to be more prominent,"

So, if we’re going to fast from anything this Lent, Francis suggests that even more than candy or alcohol, we fast from indifference towards others.

Describing this phenomenon he calls the globalization of indifference, Francis writes that “whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor. God’s voice is no longer heard, the quiet joy of his love is no longer felt, and the desire to do good fades.” He continues that, “We end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own.”

Unaffordable And Unachievable

Bernie’s plan falls short of this imagined utopia and would fail for reasons fiscal, political, social and medical.

No American would have to come up with copays or satisfy deductibles, nor would they face the fear of losing coverage.