On September 11, 2015, Megan Barry made history when she was elected Nashville’s first female mayor. Barry’s win is significant because it chips away at the glass ceiling women still confront in politics, but it’s... Read More

UPDATE: Kim Davis was ordered to be released from jail today, September 8, 2015. On Thursday, September 3, Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses due to her religious condemnation of... Read More

It's that time of year—summer is reaching its end and children are anxiously awaiting one of the most stressful days of the year: the first day of school. When I think back to my school... Read More

Planned Parenthood has never been a stranger to haters and politicians on the conservative Christian right. Recently, one group made a bold yet unsurprising move in an effort to destroy Planned Parenthood’s image amongst it... Read More

On July 13, President Obama commuted the sentences of forty-six drug offenders, thirteen of which were serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes. These commutations, which began last year under the Clemency Project 2014, now come... Read More

The US Congress is many things to many people—an austere lawmaking institution, a dysfunctional madhouse, even a testing ground for the latest buzzword or political acronym. But for others, the House of Representatives and the... Read More

What would it take for a fatherless black man, who grew up in a progressive, yet somewhat chaotic, lower middle-class family and spent most of his childhood moving from place to place, to become the... Read More