North Carolina’s HB 2 law—also known as the “bathroom bill”—has stirred the pot of national controversy for the past few weeks. This particular piece of legislation has catapulted itself into a topic of debate among the presidential candidates as well.

The Political Science Department of San Diego State University hosted a panel on Thursday, March 28, 2016, to critique the presidential election. Speakers Bill Van Auken, leading member of the Socialist Equality Party, and Paul Street, author of They Rule: the 1% Versus Democracy, discussed how America’s political system fails to be a democracy, the faults of the parties and candidates, and young people's growing interest in socialism.

Ever since Cruz's speech where he shamelessly set up the scene from the 1986 film Hoosiers, I haven't been able to get the movie out of my mind.

I hate it when that happens. Now whenever the candidate does anything, I associate it with the rest of the movie.

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said that if she made the presidential primary rules, she would do away with open primaries that allow independent voters to participate in taxpayer-funded elections. Speaking on "MSNBC Live" Monday, Wasserman Schultz said she believes that the Democratic nominee should be chosen by Democrats and Democrats only.

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.