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The article discusses the 2016 presidential election fate of Hillary Clinton, who lost against Donald Trump, despite her progressive policies and stance supports.

The author discusses buoyant, multi-generational,multi-gendered Women's March in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2017 and mentions that it reminded him of the Vietnam Moratoriums, like the November 1969 event. He mentions how the president elect Donald J. Trump and former president Richard Nixon were similar in several ways while the difference was Nixon had political experience. He also mentions how according to Nixon, black people could never run government and Washington was full of Jews.

The article focuses on the changes in the policy of medicare and social security by the U.S. President Donald Trump for older people. Topics discussed include planning to modernise medicare and social security, introducing various bills to cut both programmes, claiming falsely that the Affordable Care Act is bankrupt.

The article analyzes the position of U.S. President Donald Trump on various issues including climate change, gay rights, reproductive health policy, taxes, and job creation. It cites statistics and information from Gallup polls which directly contradict Trump's views. It also examines the prospects for his infrastructure plans amid the challenges posed by the Republican Congress.

The article discusses how hackers posted comedian Leslie Jones leaked her personal information and nude photos in spiral of hate speech. Topics discussed include the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment's freedom of the press protections; colonial policies, which required printers to be government licensed and subjected them to pre-publication censorship and libel laws that forbade colonists from criticizing British rule; provision of the Federal Communications Act of 1934.

The article focuses on the insight of U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on neoliberalism. Topics discussed include an overview of neoliberalism, the issue on deregulation in terms of basic service privatization and federal government spending, and Clinton's perspective on national welfare reform.

The article offers information on the misogyny and sexism hurled at presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her supporters. Topics discussed include political responses of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders regarding in rallies; words of misogyny and sexism coursing through internet and social media for Clinton; and slurs by the Right and the escalating attacks by Sanders and his followers.

The article discusses hatred of people towards the Presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Topics include his 21-hour anti-Obamacare speech that prompted a 16-day government shutdown, popularity of Donald Trump, American Politician, Cruz's strict limits on abortion, and Cruz's plan to repeal corporate income taxes and eliminate payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare.

The article focuses on the growing number of single women in the U.S. and role of these women in reshaping U.S. politics. Topics discussed include Rebecca Traister's book "All the Single Ladies" the role of women in reshaping politics, single women as successful writers, artists and activists, and women power and their becoming feminist heroes.

The article focuses on Democrat presidential nominee contender Bernard Sanders and his vision for social solidarity to unite the young and old Americans around an emphatic repudiation of market fundamentalism. Sanders' focus on income inequality, free education, and health insurance has constructed an intergenerational bridge for people that reject a government by elites. The young people cheer for Sanders, pack his rallies, and donate to his cause.

The article focuses on the media coverage on Michigan Governor Rick Snyder in connection with the contamination of the water supply of the city of Flint. It mentions claim of its population that the water crisis was an act of environmental racism, the similarity between Snyder and U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in which both committed to use their business background in addressing problems and the consequences from the appointment of emergency managers who overrule elected officials.

The author discusses U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's strategy of tapping into Americans' ideas about heroes derived from television shows, video games and movies to win their support. Topics covered include the trope that there are simple solutions to complex problems, mass-entertainment fantasies of lone heroes in films such as "Die Hard" exploited by Trump, and his promotion of the illusion that stereotypes are generally true and should guide public policies.

The article focuses on the measures which has been taken by the U.S. after terrorist attack on Paris, France by Islamic State in Iraq & Syria (ISIS). Topics discussed include solidarity by politicians of the U.S. after the attack; presence of Arab-American population in Michigan; views of U.S. businessman Donald Trump, on the ban of Syrian Muslim refugees in the U.S.; settlement of refugees from Somalia and Iraq in the U.S. and prevention of attacks by ISIS.

The article discusses the importance of better family policies in the U.S. to level the playing field for children of low- and middle-income backgrounds. It notes the result of the study of the nonprofit organization Russell Sage Foundation, which indicates the retrograde family policies of the country, and the lack of paid family leave and quality early childhood education for children. It also mentions the factors that caused such problems and offers suggestions on how to address the issue.

The article focuses on former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his forgotten radicalism on the values he championed. It is noted that bottom-feeders Chris Christie and Ted Cruz have bashed Carter on the campaign trail as a weak and failed president. However, the bashers have forgotten that Carter's administration inherited high oil and gas prices, high inflation, and unemployment, and cost him a second term in office.

The article discusses the responses made by the U.S. National Rifle Association (NRA) to reduce the rate of fatal and nonfatal firearm violence in the state. It states that guns are speculated to become the leading cause of death among young people in the U.S. by 2015. It adds that the gun violence in state declined following the introduction of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act in 1993.

The article reflects on the argument of U.S. politician Jeb Bush regarding Iraq invasion during the 2015 Southern Republican Leadership Conference held in Oklahoma City on May 22, 2015. It mentions the plan of Bush to run in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections against Hillary Clinton. It notes the leadership of former President George W. Bush who was ranked as one of the worst presidents in the U.S. history.

The article talks about the proposals made by Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin to cut $300 million in state funding from public Universities of Wisconsin and to turn University of Wisconsin system into public authority. This would result in its inability to seek state funding and thus fees have to be increased. The public education system dedicated to serving not just white rich kids but students of color resulting in social mobility is mentioned, and the Republican ideologues are critiqued.

The article discusses the viability of the candidature of Hillary Clinton, who is the democratic party candidate for 2016 U.S. Topics include views of Clinton in domestic and foreign policies, controversies surrounding Clinton, when she was the head of the healthcare task force, and Clinton's probable future stance regarding republicans.

The article discusses the launch of redesigned Sunday magazine edition by the New York Times on February 22, 2015. It states that cover page of the periodical featured a globe in the blackness of space with the tagline "Hello, World" along with fullpage advertisement for luxury cars, five-star resorts, wealth management services and condos in Manhattan, New York on first 29 pages. Information on two-page advertisement for the automobile Lincoln Navigator, is also presented.

The author discusses a study by researcher Shanto Iyengar and Sean Westwood, which revealed why U.S. Democrats and Republicans can't get along. The author shares his dislike for several Republicans including Ted Cruz, John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell. It states that several studies have found that U.S. political conservatives tend toward certain psychological characteristics.

In this article, the author offers information on the corruption entering sports including football. She mentions that football is a multi-billion dollar industry and a form of entertainment, community identity, cultural ritual and bonding. She also mentions that despite moments of grace and athleticism, it relies on men violently assaulting other men on the field.

The author reflects on the contribution of social media in attracting national attention towards police racism in the U.S. due to the police shooting of African American Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, focusing on BlackTwitter, a cultural identity on the Twitter social network focused on issues of interest to African Americans. Topics include a news broadcast on television network NBC News showing Michael Brown, the role of Facebook in the movement, and a blog post on "The New Republic."

The article discusses the promotion of book "Hard Choices" by Hillary Clinton along with confronting the media larded with institutional sexism in which women are underrepresented and actively discriminated against. It mentions the revealing of 36 percent of stories by the women regarding the U.S. politics. It presents about the Women accounting for half of younger presenters as per the 2013 British study.

The article discusses the controversy surrounding the rape culture in the U.S. Topics discussed include the publication of an online rape guide by a male student at Dartmouth College, the main criticism of the term rape culture, and the observation made by anti-feminist Christina Hoff on the rape-culture crusade. A debate in the media and online entitled Does America have a "rape culture"? is also mentioned.

The article focuses on the surveillance of online activities and the concerns related to the same. Topics discussed include the book "Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance" by Julia Angwin, Pulitzers prize to the newspapers "Washington Post" and the "Guardian" for exposing widespread surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency and the success of the television programs including "Survivor" "Big Brother, "and "The Real World."

The article discusses the climatic changes and dramatic weather extremes in the U.S. because of the global warming and discusses about the rabid flogging of the disaster aspects of storms at the expense of all else also called weather porn as of May 1, 2014. Topics discussed include tropical weather at the Sochi Olympics, comments from the CBS Broadcasting Inc. contributor Michio Kaku and climatic changes because of the melting of North Pole.

The article focuses on Stuart Hall, the British Marxist public intellectual, cultural theorist and director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University, who died on February 10, 2014. Topics include his contributions to academic discourse being one of the founding figures of cultural studies, how he changed how people think about popular culture, and how he redefined the meaning of ideology.

The article discusses various issues faced by the Beatles after their arrival in the U.S. for the performance on television program "The Ed Sullivan Show." It mentions the death threats faced by the band after demonstrations of religious extremists. Topics discussed include religious fanaticism, gun violence on singer John Lennon and government paranoia.

The article offers information on the declination of taxes in public colleges and universities from the past five years in the U.S. It mentions the data of 15 percent cut in state universities and a 1.8 billion dollars tax cut for businesses. It also reflects on one-fifth of enrollments drop for higher education in the University of California and California State schools from past five years.

The article presents information on the situation of panic that occurred on October 30, 1938 after the broadcast of "War of the Worlds" show on the CBS Broadcasting Inc., a radio station in the U.S. It informs that people now are more aware of such mis-happening and remain prepared for any such incidents. It further informs that the people now consider themselves more superior because of the technology which is available to them.

In this article, the author focuses on the developments in the U.S. as of 2013 after the assassination of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. He informs that the U.S. has made several advancements including the legalization of gay marriage, the improvement in women/men wage ratio and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama. He mentions that a polling data has revealed that support for government solutions and policy problems has decreased after 2008.

The article discusses various issues associated with the privacy policy of various online social sites including Google, Facebook and Twitter. It informs about the protest of people outside the U.S. against the surveillance programs of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). It further mentions the argument of Google Inc. in a court filing for its email privacy.

The article discusses reproductive rights of women and abortion in the U.S. It mentions that according to the non-profit organization Guttmacher Institute, during 2012 state legislatures across the U.S. had passed 43 legislation which imposes restrictions on abortion. It further states that the media in the U.S. did not gave adequate coverage to anti abortion campaign such as the "Moral Monday" by a coalition of human rights activist and religious groups.

The article offers information on neoliberalism, the doctrine of cutting government, reducing social services and then letting market forces dominanting ideology, regardless of its obvious, staggering failures. It states that the involvement of U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in investigation into the legality of the activities of 501(c)(4) nonprofits has became a media firestorm.

The article focuses on Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in the U.S. It mentions that these MOOC are free online courses and a student can take it at their home. It reports that some universities such as Stanford, Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are providing the online courses but worried about the funding model for MOOCs for future run. It informs that a student which graduates from the online course would miss all the valuable experience of the university campus.

In this article, the author reflects upon the increasing association of food in the U.S. with a kind of pornography. The author refers to covers of two periodicals "Saveur," and "The New York Times," that highlight a form of food pornography and criticizes television advertisements that encourage eating of junk food and use of weight loss tools. The author also mentions about high rate of obesity in the U.S.

In this article, the author argues against the research conducted by the U.S. National Rifle Association (NRA) regarding gun control. According to the author, NRA has successfully influenced the decision of the U.S. Congress regarding a research on controlling gun violence. It highlights that NRA has conducted a study to contradict the result of a study conducted by Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and states that 45 percent of Americans have guns.

The article focuses on the rights of U.S. citizens to carry arms and highlights laws which authorize people to possess arms. It informs that according to the government of Massachusetts, people have a right to keep and bear arms for their defense. It also informs that banning of assault weapons and enforcement of background checks are necessary to maintain peace.

The article offers author's insights on the long duration and expensive electoral campaigns in United States. It says that the Super PACs has spent a total estimate of $700 million (m) and the Republican Party has targeted negative advertisements against the Democrats. It also mentions that Matty Moroun, a Detroit billionaire in Michigan, has spent more than $33m to block the building of a bridge in Canada and Detroit.

The article focuses on several aspects related to the U.S. presidential election 2012 including the campaign for the U.S. presidential election, reasons for losing of Mitt Romney, the opponent leader and expenses done by both the parties on this campaign. It also reflects on role of media in campaign and reaction of media on the results of the polls and discusses various reasons after becoming Barack Obama the U.S. president

The article discusses on the anguish by Generation Y for the worst economic conditions created by baby boomer generation. It states that Gen-Y think that baby boomers in the age group of 48 to 66, were self indulgent who spent all their money on sex, drugs and rock'n'roll and never saved a penny and want their children to take jobs. But the real story is that under the wages of neoliberalism, and market fundamentalism everyone except the top 5 percent people are in trouble.