Senator Cruz suggested that the NSA's register of Americans' phone calls may actually have increased under the misnamed "USA Freedom Act".

Apparently he was not supposed to let us know this.

The states of Washington and California will allow most women to get contraceptive prescriptions from pharmacists, without seeing a doctor first.

The TPP would sabotage efforts to curb global heating in several ways.

This is a natural consequence of the way it was drawn up. For each area of business, the US government asked the companies in that area what they wanted. The fossil fuel companies asked for policies that will help them.

Fundamentally, control of greenhouse gas emissions is good for the people, so it's what democracy will do if it works right. The TPP is a business-supremacy treaty with some secondary support for unregulated trade. What these treaties do is weaken democracy and give business more power.

Right-wing groups are 7 states away from triggering a constitutional convention that could rewrite the US Constitution in unpredictable ways.

The richest 20 Americans own more than half the population. To spread the wealth, vote for progressives.