Only in Washington, D.C. could a law designed to increase voter awareness and access to information actually be labeled an affront to democracy.

And yet that is the ridiculously asinine spectacle currently unfolding in Congress.

But don't get too eager about taking sides - for while this story involves a toxic cocktail of selfishness and greed, it is a bi-partisan one.

Full disclosure: back in January, the US Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission that corporate... READ MORE

Nativism creeps up in US politics every generation in one form or another. Ironically, for a country built by immigrants, fears of large numbers of foreigners entering the country remain as palpable as ever.

But in Arizona, things have just taken an unprecedented turn for the worse.

There is no denying illegal immigration continues to occur in the United States in record numbers. Primarily the result of people crossing the border with Mexico, it is estimated that there were at least 11 million illegal... READ MORE

When did everyone in America apparently lose their minds?

Politics is often referred to as the art of compromise. The US government, much like other Western democracies, relies of a system of checks and balances to ensure no one branch of the government has unlimited power. When different parties share power, it should encourage cooperation.

You wouldn't know it from the Tea Party movement, a group that brings new meaning to the term lunatic fringe.

The Tea Party movement - which takes its name... READ MORE