Author: Real History Lisa

While we’ve been concentrating on the healthcare debate, the economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, another story important to American democracy has gotten inadequate attention: a single company is poised to...

Red alert! I don’t have time to do a full diary on this, but the Supreme Court is poised to overthrow years of precedent and allow corporations to directly contribute to political campaigns. If that happens, you’ll...

The Lion of the Senate is gone, and our country is the poorer for his passing. Senator Ted Kennedy passed away late last night, surrounded by his family. While we all knew that, given his prognosis, this event seemed inevitable,...

Why was the military trying to film a plane low-flying over NYC? I don’t buy the explanation – the only one given – that they were just trying to update file photos. Because according to this article, the...

This story is a reminder of why so many of us worked so hard to get Barack Obama elected President. He’s showing exactly the kind of diplomatic skills we so desperately need in anyone who would help America be a leader in...