Author: storiesinamerica

I met Brenda, a 50-something former Democrat at last week’s Juneteenth festival in San Francisco. Corruption is clearly turning people who were once politically active into non-voters. Because of Brenda’s belief that...

Promoted by Steven D. Too important for words. Many of you followed parts of my six-month road trip through the so-called “red states,” where I interviewed people about why they vote the way they do. The goal of the...

A year after a White House spokesman was asked whether Bush supports birth control, and more than 300 days after New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney and 19 colleagues asked the same question in a letter (they wrote five letters in...

This November, South Dakotans will send a strong message to the rest of the country after they vote on the nation’s most restrictive state abortion ban, which offers no exceptions for rape and incest. Politicians on...

As Bush travels the country raising $27 million for his fellow compassionate conservatives in one night, the people of New Orleans continue to suffer beyond comprehension. Suicide rates are higher than they’ve ever been,...