Allison MacDonald

This Friday will mark the 100th day of the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay prison, where 100 detainees are now on strike. Read More

Just when it starts to feel like the legal fight over access to Plan B couldn’t possibly get any more complicated, it does. Read More

When the Heritage Foundation released its cost-estimate of the immigration bill, its aim was to draw attention to the flaws of the bill; instead, Heritage drew attention to its own flaws. Read More

Following the attacks at the Boston Marathon last month, U.S-Russian relations have followed a more cooperative path than they have in the past, but it’s unclear whether the same cooperation will define discussions between the two countries when it comes to the subject of Syria. Read More

Across the world, demonstrations took place to mark International Workers Day, also known as May Day. With high unemployment, a paltry federal minimum wage and… Read More

Lost in the coverage of the tragedy in Boston earlier this month was the explosion of a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, that killed 14 people and injured 160. Read More

When it comes to drone warfare, President Obama's record on civil liberties is not what the world expected. Read More

The Justice Department did not read suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights when they apprehended him, invoking the "public safety" exemption. Read More

On Wednesday, 124 days after the tragedy in Newtown, the U.S. Senate voted down a bipartisan amendment to increase background checks Read More

On the issue of immigration reform, there may be consensus among the Senate’s Gang of 8 but that doesn't guarantee the bill's future passage. Read More

The president’s $3.7 trillion budget will save $1.8 trillion over the next ten years through tax increases for the wealthy and cuts to earned benefit programs, but will it see the light of day? Read More

The executive director of the Sierra Club warned the Obama administration about the project's disastrous effect on the environment Monday. Read More

When we talk about human trafficking, the assumption seems to be that it’s a problem which only exists in faraway countries away from the development world. But in reality, human trafficking is a hugely American problem as well. Read More

American women are doing better economically and educationally than many of their sisters around the globe. But even in the U.S., women lag behind in areas like STEM, which are rapidly growing fields. Read More

Gov. Rick Perry called Medicaid expansion a "fool's errand" -- but in this case, who is really the fool? Read More

North Dakota and Arkansas may be grabbing the headlines, but they are joining a long list of states taking on Roe v. Wade at the state level. Read More

Mayor Bloomberg is putting pressure on Congress to act on gun control legislation. Will his $12 billion ad blitz work? Read More

There is a high price to pay for taste-bud happiness. The new book "Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us," puts a spotlight on the efforts of food companies over the years to manipulate their products to the ultimate "bliss point." Read More

President Obama says "peace is possible" between Israelis and Palestinians, but could it become a reality? Read More

That greatest tenet of Republican fiscal policy has been disproved time and time again, and still it returns to Capitol Hill yet again. Read More