In June, I watched donald trump in New Hampshire speak at a campaign appearance in a big home before an all-white audience. (donald trump appears in lower case, as I refuse to accord him the dignity he routinely refuses others, but in doing so, I extend my apologies to e e cummings.)

I watched his show courtesy of MSNBC, which astonishingly covered it live – all of it.

Zoom In: Frontrunners are full steam ahead in Acela Primary

Last Tuesday, voters in the Acela Primary made their voices heard. Donald Trump swept the Republican primaries by large margins. In the wake of his first majority win in New York’s primary, Trump earned 56.7% in Pennsylvania with Ted Cruz in a distant second at 21.6%. Trump also won 57.9% in Connecticut, 60.8% in Delaware, 54.4% in Maryland, and 63.8% in Rhode Island.

Faye Flam, who has written for Science Magazine and continues to write about science, mathematics, and medicine, recently explained in detail  a number of reasons why nature isn't as simple as some people believe, as exemplified by the contentious debate over transgender access to bathrooms.

Ted Cruz's early pick of Carly Fiorina as his potential running mate reeked of desperation, anything to get a few free headlines away from Donald Trump in these final few primary battles.

Last week, the release of a Justice Department memo revealed that a secretive court accepted every request in 2015.

According to a Reuters report, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), received 1,457 requests for foreign intelligence surveillance and did not reject a single one. The requests deal with email and telephone intercepts.

On April 4, the governors of California and New York signed off on legislation raising their state’s minimum wages to $15 per hour. While the public may disagree about the merits of this measure and what the cumulative effects will be, there is little disagreement that states – as “laboratories of democracy” – are entitled to perform such economic experiments.

State-run propaganda is one of the most valuable sources of news on the planet; if it is important enough to make it into the official party news, it's important enough for you to figure out why.

This month marked the first time China's secretive LGBT population has tried to use the courts to expand their rights and increase their share of the cultural dialog.

In the past, efforts to use the system have been quietly swept aside, like the introduction of pro-LGBT bills in the National People's Congress in 2006 and 2007.

2016 is here, and politics-as-usual has been turned on its head. Democrats and Republicans are switching affiliation to their rival parties in historical numbers.

When a nation is faced with a fait accompli (such as the existence of millions of illegal aliens within its borders), the prudent and most promising response is to frankly acknowledge the intractability of the situation (and the impossibility of obtaining an ideal solution) and focus its energy and resources on making the best of a bad situation.

Since 1970, the average time to fill the 15 Supreme Court vacancies that have occurred has been 55 days, far shorter than the minimum time it will take for the Senate to fill the late Antonin Scalia's seat if the upper chamber waits for the next president (342 days minimum).

Part of this is because retiring justices have made the confirmation of a successor a contingency on their retirement -- the only real waits have come from seats filled because of a justice's death.