FBI official David Bowdich issued this statement immediately after the mass killing in San Bernardino by alleged shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, "It would be irresponsible and premature for me to call this terrorism. The FBI defines terrorism very specifically, and that is the big question for us: What is the motivation for this?" Two days later FBI Director James Comey finally did use the word "terrorism" in a

Sen. Bernie Sanders would win the 2016 presidential election against all top Republican candidates, with scores that make him more electable in the general than even former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, his main rival for the Democratic nomination, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.

What everybody ought to know about the U.S. in Haiti is uncomfortable. But the video reveals many hidden truths. This is not for the avid consumers of fake news and fake Western education.

When they should be calling Trump out, the other Republican candidates instead embrace the worst of his politics. Trump's fantasies are facilitated by supposedly "mainstream" Republicans, who seek to advance themselves by being even more outrageous than the man who continually sets new standards for political outrageousness.

The Republicans seem to have made up their minds: they will divide, degrade and secede from the Union. They will do so by gerrymandering and denying the vote to as many of the poor, the elderly, struggling low-paid workers, and people of color as they can. And by appealing to the basest impulses of human nature: anger, fear and bigotry.