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But either way – responding to crisis or finding a public change of heart – is a reminder that voters are the ultimate arbiters in a functioning democracy. Today, as in late-19th-century America, ...

Roland Martin slammed Pharrell Williams for calling politics “a magic trick,” accusing him of being out of touch with the very systems that made his success possible.

Businessman Stan Leavell is one of the few non-Chicago candidates running in the Democratic primary as he seeks the nomination for U.S. Senate. Leavell, from Carmi, calls himself a "working man who's ...

One simple question separates the intellectually honest from partisan hacks: Does the morality of repulsive behavior depend on the politics of the perpetrator? If your primary defense of reprehensible ...