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Deride the NRA's spokesman all you want, but his group is close to gutting gun control legislation in Congress.

Decades of work to change rape laws has done little to change culture.

Collecting DNA upon arrest can identify the guilty and exonerate the innocent. But it also amounts to an expanding racial dragnet.

For more than three decades, he was perhaps the most prominent establishment voice for the antiwar, human rights and civil rights movements.

Sooner or later, marriage equality will win. What happens to marriage then?

The NSA Four reveal how a toxic mix of cronyism and fraud blinded the agency before 9/11.

Media-savvy conservative think tanks take aim and fire at progressive power bases in the states. 

As The New York Times worries about the difficulties of preparing vegan food for Seder, what about the difficulties of celebrating a plague that killed all firstborn Egyptian children and animals?

The LAPD is supposed to have cleaned up its act under the tenure of Police Chief Charlie Beck. But his record is rife with denials and whitewashes.

ABC’s hit show, created by Shonda Rhimes and starring Kerry Washington, is a truly original political soap opera.