I'm happy to report that every single Democratic challenger with more than $500k in cash on hand has announced their support for net neutrality. This is a milestone for the fight for internet freedom.

The desire to hear more also cut across different demographic groups. Even among Republicans and Democrats the answers were similar - a majority of each felt there hadn't been adequate amount of time spent on the topic.

Persistent childhood poverty costs our country about $500 billion a year by way of lost productivity, school drop-outs, crime, and growing numbers enrolled in nutrition and public assistance programs.

Some of our best ideas should never get beyond the early planning stages. We should continue to dream.

Ron Fairchild, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Summer Learning, explains why it's important for kids to keep intellectually active even when school's out for the summer.

The numbers are startling: in 2006, over 15% of children lived below the poverty line, and 12.6 million children lived in households that were unable to always afford enough food.

A few hours ago a producer from Fox's Comedy show, The O'Reilly Factor, started peppering Bill Moyers with asinine questions. Moyers, as you probably could have predicted, made a fool of the guy.

If only the Democratic nominee was some kind of legal expert, like maybe he taught law or something and could decisively school John McCain on how to read the US Constitution. That would be sweet.

"I like to call this new system creative capitalism -- an approach where governments,businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain reocognition, doing work that eases the worl

Embarrassed by three special election defeats over the last two months, all in supposedly deep red districts, Republicans apparently plan to campaign as Democrats this year.