Trump Takes Second Presidential Debate Into the Gutter, With Sleazy Attacks on Bill Clinton and Bullying Threat to Jail Hillary

By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

Clinton was disciplined, but delivered no knockout blows READ MORE»

America Deserves an Apology from the Republican Party for Giving Us Trump

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet

The Republican Party has been the grab-'em-by-the-pussy party for 36 years—Donald Trump simply made it clear.  READ MORE»

Why Body Cameras Won't Solve the Problem of Police Violence Against Black People

By Nathalie Baptiste, AlterNet

North Carolina just passed a law removing police body-cam footage from the public record. Elsewhere, police departments stall release of footage.  READ MORE»

Indigenous People Have Rights: Why It's Time to Abolish Columbus Day

By Bill Bigelow, Zinn Education Project

Most school curricula teach students to celebrate colonialism and racism. Enough. READ MORE»

What If Donald Is Not 'Dumbing Down' and Actually Is This Dumb?

By Cody Cain, Salon

Is it all an act? More likely, Trump really has the mind of a fourth-grader (apologies to those in fourth grade). READ MORE»

Do You Know an Otherwise Intelligent and Kind Young Person Who Likes Trump? I Do, and I Confronted Him About It

By Jenny Pierson, AlterNet

A surprising personal discovery on the tricky question of how people make up their minds on who they are voting for. READ MORE»

Michael Moore: We All Know Trump Isn't the Only Groper in the GOP

By Michael Moore, AlterNet

There is plenty of blame to go around for the GOP assault on women. READ MORE»

The Staggering Evangelical Hypocrisy Over Hillary’s Refusal to Divorce Bill

By Lyz Lenz, Salon

Divorce is bad, argue Christian leaders. And yet the Clintons are judged moral failures for staying together. READ MORE»

Cop's Own Dash Cam Catches Him Pulling Over and Raping Multiple Women While On Duty

By Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project

Spring Hill Police Officer Christopher Odom is one of many officers who are caught raping those they’ve sworn to protect. READ MORE»

Deception, Dirty Dealing, and Duplicity: The Low Down Campaign to Keep Marijuana Illegal in Massachusetts

By Mike Crawford, AlterNet

The prohibitionist Campaign for a Safe and Healthy Massachusetts has some strange bedfellows and even stranger notions of fair play and honesty. READ MORE»

Will Closeted Trump Voters Pull a Bradley Effect?

By Bill Berkowitz, Buzzflash at Truthout

What happens in the voting booth isn't necessarily what's revealed in polls.  READ MORE»

Trump Backer Smacked Down: ‘I’m More Afraid of Being Sexually Assaulted by Trump Than By an Immigrant'

By Tom Boggioni, Raw Story

One big advocate of building Trump's wall along the Mexican border got a lesson in what really scares women. READ MORE»

Video: Viral Beatles Parody Urges California Pot Legalization

By Chris Conrad, The Leaf Online

"When I'm 64" transforms into "Yes on 64." READ MORE»

What Being a Phone Sex Operator Taught Me About Sexism and Racism

By Alex Blank Millard, The Establishment

“I began to understand how often sadness sounds like anger.” READ MORE»

Campus Workers Unmask Scheme to Privatize All Tennessee Property

By Melanie Barron , Jeffrey Lichtenstein, Portside

Governor Bill Haslam concocted the biggest privatization scheme you’ve never heard of. READ MORE»