Over 11 years ago, a new, bipartisan bill was introduced on the on the Senate floor. This piece of legislation, aptly entitled the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, had the potential then -- and still has the potential now -- to transform individual lives,...

The plotline is idealistically simple: A dog runs outside, fetches the newspaper, and bounds back to his owner. As the sun is rising over a perfectly-maintained neighborhood, the man sits down with his morning coffee, unfolds the paper, and begins to read. My reality is different, to say the least:...

With the neck-in-neck results of the Iowa caucus blanketing the airwaves and a shifting focus to the upcoming primaries in New Hampshire, almost every media outlet has one question on its mind: Who is winning the battle for the Republican nomination? And while it is admittedly easy to get caught...