Like many other twentysomethings, I was watching The Daily Show the other night to see what news Jon Stewart and his crew were mocking/making sense of, and the middle segment hit a little close to home.

Obviously, this is meant to be a goof. Education is a wonderful...

A few months back I wrote about how Republicans were trying to keep college students from voting - they removed voting booths from campuses, they tried to knock kids off the voter rolls for using their dorm addresses, tried to institute photo ID laws, plus a dozen other...

First and foremost, my thoughts are with Boston today. I hope your friends and family were as lucky as mine were to avoid any harm, and my prayers are with those who were not as lucky.

Watching the news was horrific for anyone who turned on a television or browsed...

In case anyone missed it today, I wanted to take the time to point people towards the Center for American Progress's fantastic interactive feature "The Game of Wages." It's fun, it's visually fantastic, and it drives home a problem that shouldn't exist: that in 2013, women are still getting...

With every bill passed in Congress, there is good news and bad news. The good news of HR 933 passing the House: we avoided a government shutdown (for now). The bad news: Congress authorized a provision known as the "Monsanto Protection Act," protecting the agricultural giant from litigation.

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This month, the Urban Institute put out a study called "Lost Generations? Wealth Building Among Young Americans." In the report, the Institute confirmed what most of Gen X and Gen Y already knew: we're poor.

"Today, those in Gen X and Gen Y have accumulated less wealth than...

This week, the Republican National Committee released its Growth & Opportunity Report, a compendium of all of the lessons the party learned from the 2012 elections, and what the Washington Post calls an "autopsy" of what went wrong.

If you break it down, the report focuses most on...

I was scrolling through Talking Points Memo this morning on the metro when I came across a story titled "Overturning The Voting Rights Act Would Be Seminal Moment For Conservative Legal Movement," detailing how conservative groups are hoping to overturn the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a law...

There's a teaching in communications psychology called "selective perception" and "selective retention," which theorizes that two people with opposing viewpoints could watch the same news report or movie, and only hear and retain things that reinforce their own views. So for example, two people watching the same presidential debate could...

I've written in blog posts before how the Obama Administration is probably the most Internet-friendly presidency to date. He was the first president to effectively use (and frankly have access to) social media to raise funds and win an election. He was the first president to do a...

In the grand scheme of things, our country's fiscal issues are getting the most news coverage. We're a country coming out of a recession (yes, we are) and people are afraid of being plunged back into one because of political infighting and legislative hardheadedness from Congress. News media...

My friends have been joking on Facebook for weeks now about "apocalypse parties," posting REM videos, and getting things done before the world ended today. And I have to say, a very small part of me was looking forward to this happening, if only so I wouldn't have to pay my student...

Mitch McConnell is having quite a week.

Earlier this week, Senate Majority leader and sad turtle McConnell led Senate Republicans in boldly not voting for a UN treaty to protect disabled people. And then yesterday, he had to filibuster his own bill when Senate Democrats called his bluff.

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Whether people think about this election's hot button issues in this framework or not, many of our country's so-called "social issues" are issues of privacy. While lawmakers fought over the economic and religious implications of hot topics like gay marriage, abortion, health care and cybersecurity, they were essentially deciding...

Right now, the East Coast is still recovering from Hurricane Sandy and the destruction she wrought. New Jersey in particular was hard-hit, forcing boards of elections to think quickly: How can people vote if they've been displaced?

Answer: They can fax their votes, or vote online. From The...

A few weeks ago, my friend Katie Della Terza, who writes an eco-friendly lifestyle blog called Shades of Green, asked me to write a blog entry on why progressive and environmentally-conscious voters should vote for Barack Obama this election, and why people should concern themselves with environmental issues this...

I love hearing about new gadgets and technology, so when Microsoft introduced its new tablets, with a detachable keyboard and the new Microsoft Windows 8 operating system, I was pretty excited about the new opportunities the tech would create.

From the technical side of things, the tablet has a step...

I, along with every other television viewer, think that President Obama did a great job last night at the debate. He connected personally more than in past appearances and elections. He was smart. He was ready to engage Mitt Romney, to point out where the governor's plan didn't add up,...

Whether he's talking about the lasting effects of the economy or his achievements in school reform, Mitt Romney mentions children pretty often. He prides himself as being an education governor, emphasizing school choice and creating the Jon and Abigail Adams Scholarship for high-schoolers going to school. Take for example this...

It came to my attention looking through my own Facebook Timeline that children being born right now could very well have their entire lives documented online -- from birth, if their parents have accounts and upload photos of them. And it brought up a few thoughts: one, what a colossal...