Matthew Rothschild

Wayne LaPierre and the NRA refuse even to acknowledge that there is a gun problem in this country. Its answer to every massacre is the same: more guns.read more

Our fundamental civil liberties just took a big hit in Congress.

Senator Dianne Feinstein had made a valiant effort to amend the renewal of the National Defense Authorization Act so it would explicitly prohibit the Pentagon from grabbing U.S. citizens and holding them indefinitely.read more

It’s not like Boehner had to beat Obama into the ground on this. The President, it seems, was always prepared to give it away.read more

“We’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action and prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.”read more

Justice Kennedy was the author of the two biggest Supreme Court decisions so far upholding gay rights. The logic of his two decisions should propel him forward.read more

“It’s gotten better for us because straight people have gotten better about us. And gay people made that happen.”read more

The NFL should have canceled the Chiefs game, and broadcasters needed to cast some light on the scourge of domestic violence.read more

Their plan “will cause major economic pain to virtually every American.”read more

It’s tedious, it’s misnamed, it airbrushes Lincoln, and where, or where, was Frederick Douglass?read more

Meet Lori Grace, who has also thrown herself into the issues of global warming and election protection.read more

The World Bank and the UN ring the alarms, while Obama fiddles.read more

To Tammy Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, to the DREAMERs, and the LGBT activists who are changing the country for the better.read more

The USDA has proposed a rule that would lessen regulation on the poultry companies. Bon appétit.read more

This unconditional support for brutal Israeli actions won’t make Israel any safer.read more

Notice how the FBI can take down any person in the country on the flimsy basis of their private, consensual behavior.read more