Former state Sen. Gene Stipe, one of the most powerful and controversial figures in Oklahoma political history, has died in his hometown McAlester. He...

BY KAREN WEBB They played this Rush Limbaugh clip last night on Rachel Maddow’s show: "Have you heard, this new movie, the Batman movie – what...

BY SHARON MARTIN Ralph Fletcher says in his book, Poetry Matters, that “ the most important moments, when everyone else is silent, poetry rises to...

BY VERN TURNER A recent blog piece by Mark Sumner succinctly summarized the state of the Republican Party and its crumbling legitimacy for representing the...

BY RALPH NADER If the Democrats in Congress were all drinking water from the same faucet, there might be a clue to their chronic fear...