In several states, prisoners are forced to work unpaid for the personal convenience of elected officials.

It is pointless to condemn Clinton personally for accepting in the 1980s a practice which was not controversial at the time. Instead of that distraction, it's better to focus on the practice itself. We should stop coercing prisoners to work on anything other than running the prison, and if they do do such work they should get the same wage as free labor. They should also be allowed to join the union for such work.

Comey's testimony says he believes Pence lied when he said he didn't know about Flynn's meetings with Russia.

Students at Evergreen State College are competing to take anti-racist campaigns to the most extreme possible degree.

Sessions wants to prohibit secure encryption in the name of ending enslavement of prostitutes, but this is a red herring. When the government looks for enslaved prostitutes, it finds few of them. What Sessions wants is to crush what remains of privacy in the US.

US citizens: tell the Senate not to let the troll pick a new FBI director.