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Members of Congress Don't Believe It's Their Job To Read Bills They Pass

The $560 billion

2015 National Defense Authorization Act passed Congress recently, and the details of the bill have military families worried.

Dianne Feinstein In No Position to Grandstand over CIA Torture Report

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) raised fire and brimstone in her rebuke of the CIA on the Senate floor after the

CIA torture report summary was released to the public. As compelling as her words may have been, however, her vocal condemnation of the use of torture serves only to distract from the fact that she has no interest in actually preventing any U.S.

Was It Worth It: America's Presence in the Middle East

With the release of the

CIA torture report this week, America is once again getting nothing but bad press about our involvement in the Middle East.

But what would historians say 100 years from now, once outside of the immediate politics and partisanship of the issues. Would they think that the wars in the Middle East were worth it?

The Cromnibus: The GOP's Answer to A Bipartisan Budget

The GOP is flexing its budget muscles as party leaders in Congress try to prove they can handle the responsibility of legislating.

In light of retaking the Senate and winning the most House seats since World War II, the majority of Republican lawmakers are looking to create as close to a bipartisan path forward as possible.

How to Lose a War on Terror

Discussions of the morality of torture have a bad habit of descending into a common game-theory scenario derived from the "Trolley Problem." It goes like this: imagine that your entire family was locked in a building that was going to blow up in ten minutes. You don’t know where the bomb is, but you have the person who placed it in custody. Would you torture the person in order to save your family?

New Orleans Group Transforms Communities Through Anti-Racism Training

Racism is everywhere, but it is hard to answer why, or to identify solutions.

Approaching the subject of racism is hard for a couple of reasons: there are no common definitions to reference what racism is, why it is, or where it comes from; and talking about racism makes people uncomfortable, offended, and sometimes angry.

Congress Quietly Passes Bill Allowing Feds Unlimited Access to Your Private Communications

On Wednesday, December 10, Congress passed a bill called the "Intelligence Authorization Act for 2015." Not very many people have heard of this bill, much less its passage since the media's main focus is on the CIA torture report. However, the Act contains language that U.S. Representative Justin Amash (R-Mich)

calls "the most egregious sections of law" he has encountered during his time in Congress.

Do Terrorists Have Due Process Rights?

Let America be America again.Let it be the dream it used to be.Let it be the pioneer on the plainSeeking a home where he himself is free.—Langston Hughes, “Let America be America Again”

Investigative Journalist Ben Swann Exposes True Roots of Police Militarization

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsRV3y37qcs

Maintaining The Circulation of Money: Government is a Pump, Not a Sponge

Ideology is a scourge on humanity. Among its many ills, one of the less dramatic but most damaging is its influence on people’s thinking about the economy. Most of what passes for economic discourse in this nation — in the world, for that matter — is ideology in the guise of economics.