The truth is that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, especially when it is religiously motivated, still retains a disturbing level of legitimacy in our society.
There are quite a few positive things scheduled for 2010. This doesn't automatically mean the president is guaranteed to have a great year, but it certainly sets the scene.
Our state's response to the Asian Carp crisis has been spineless politicking, obstruction, and a concerted effort to delay a real solution. It is all that is wrong with Illinois politics in a nutshell.
It was in the Senate this year where the goal of meaningful health care reform gave way to a bill that feels as if it was written by the insurance company lobbyists.
That a woman consented to use her body as a surrogate was irrelevant, because there are some acts to which nobody is permitted to consent. As well-meaning as this approach might have been, its underpinnings are inescapably sexist.
Welcome back to my annual outright theft of The McLaughlin Group's awards categories for the past year in politics.
If the National Rifle Association's leaders want to help suspected terrorists get easy access to guns, bucking the wishes of their own membership, they should come out and say so.
We look back with pride, and with some amazement really, at these great civil justice wins during the past decade. It hasn't been easy, and there are many to thank.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." --Lincoln. "When you have both extremes saying they're unhappy, I think it's [the Senate's December 2...
Michigan is suing Illinois, the Chicago sanitation district and the U.S. government, seeking an injunction that closes two locks in the canal that connects the Illinois River and Lake Michigan.
Because of the legal nicety of the corporation, established solely to promote commerce, we are now going to be treated to the permanent takeover of the US government by these humanly-created legal fictions.
What do Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the Supreme Court of the United States and golfing giant Tiger Woods have in common? Privacy. More specifically, how we define privacy in our texting, tweeting, Facebooking, YouTubing, Googling era.
Lieberman's success in eliminating the public option from the Senate health reform bill makes one thing perfectly clear: to pass progressive reform, the Senate must change its filibuster rules.
How did we get to the flashpoint where today's Supreme Court might ignore law and overrule long-standing precedent to allow corporations again to dominate our politics?
A new case involving texting on company phones is set to hit the Supreme Court. The case, which involves police officers in Ontario, California exce...
Major League Baseball appears to be hurting financially. The signs were there from the time we landed at the airport in Indianapolis, site of this year's Baseball Winter Meetings.
Will President Obama serve as the beacon of hope in government that he pretended to be throughout last year's campaign, or did he merely pander to the public in order to pursue his personal ambitions?
Brain research may convince the public that development is a fixed, undisputed path toward rational thought, thus further marginalizing those children who stray from the path of 'normal' development.
Loving v. Virginia was a unanimous Supreme Court decision that declared state anti-miscegenation (interracial marriage) laws unconstitutional. It is simply not credible for any lawyer to claim ignorance about it.
In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court is set to rule in the Citizens United vs. FEC case, which could potentially overturn 100 years of campaign fina...
Alaska's willingness to do business with Exxon was like having your parents rent the basement to the guy who date raped you on prom night. Now Palin is claiming victory for the people of Alaska? Reality Deficit Disorder, now in book form.
