Politics Features

The first Democratic Party primary season debates will be held this week. Because there are two debates, it will require an unusual set of official Rolling Stone drinking game rules, listed below. We thought 17 candidates was a lot last time. Now it’s 23. Or is it 24? By 2024 …

Racism and Republicanism been bedfellows for generations now, and advocates of both ideals have had their reasons for seeing the government fail. Few things have helped spark racial and economic progress, such that it is, like the bedrock legislation of the 1960s. Court decisions and federal programs have helped inch …

There are many Bryan Stevenson quotes to live by, but there is one that I keep at my desk. The civil rights attorney who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, published a book in 2014 called Just Mercy. In the introduction, Stevenson notes that his work with the …

I worry about the voters who need to be told that This Is the Most Important Election of Our Lives. I have heard people use this phrase for as long as I’ve been alive, and I’m sure I’ve repeated it a few times myself. But who are these people who …

Last week, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Army is discharging reservists and recruits who joined the military as part of a promised path to citizenship. I’ve spent time since then trying to remember if I served in the Army with anyone who wasn’t a U.S. citizen. And the …

Imagine a bull – or a bull’s handlers – wanting a matador to wave a red muleta in front of the charging beast. That’s one way to look at Monday night’s leak of the questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly wants to ask President Trump as part of the growing …

On Wednesday, the Senate passed the Stop Enabling Sex-Trafficking Act by a bipartisan consensus of 97-2. SESTA amends Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, a federal provision which protects online publishers – from Facebook to The Erotic Review – from being held liable for third-party user posts on …

Last October, just about a week after the release of the infamous Access Hollywood “pussy” tape, Donald Trump gave a surprising speech in Columbus, Ohio. While the entire Republican Party wasrunning sideways away from his cratering campaign, Trump was scrambling to find a way back in the race. One of …