On June 1, the Supreme Court handed down an overwhelming 8-1 ruling against Abercrombie & Fitch for discriminating against Samantha Elauf, a practicing Muslim, for wearing a headscarf under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Abercrombie refused to hire Elauf because scarfs or head pieces of any kind violate their corporate dress code.

Various groups have reacted to this decision in a variety of ways -- some herald it as a victory for religious freedom, while some interpreted it as an assault on Christian traditions.

It is time for America to rethink its position on grass.

While one notorious weed commands attention from the media, the government, and the public, another less assuming grass is quietly exacerbating some of America’s most pressing issues — without any partisan baggage.

reported Tuesday that Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and 2016 presidential candidate, wants to completely change the way we look at campaign finance in the United States, and is offering a unique solution to fix the current system.

The U.S. Senate passed the USA Freedom Act on Tuesday in a 67-32 vote. The vote came 36 hours after controversial provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act expired. The new law renews these provisions, including the much debated Section 215, but supporters say it significantly reins in the government's surveillance powers.

Most attempts to block these freedoms have come primarily during wartime and in the interest of national security.

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's (R) so-called tea party experiment in supply side economics has thrust the normally quiet politics of solidly-red Kansas into the national spotlight.

Open Primaries, a national political reform organization, released the results of a new poll Monday that show overwhelming support for nonpartisan elections in Mississippi from a seemingly surprising group of voters. According to the poll, 85 percent of party primary voters on both sides of the political aisle favor nonpartisan primaries.

As the pressure mounts to open up the fall 2016 presidential debates to an independent candidate, Bloomberg Politics reporter Emily Greenhouse has written an excellent piece headlined: "

Pew Research released the results of an online poll of over 2,000 Americans Monday that offers new insight into how Americans get their news. The study found:

Americans may finally want results more than they want teams.

For a country that supposedly celebrates individuality, America has historically been defined by its majority-making super-groups. Partisan politicians and religious sects all jockeying for cultural and structural influence have long been bellwethers for progress, power, and the priorities of the nation.