T. Chase Meacham

A group of over 70 members of Congress gathered in Capitol Hill on Thursday morning to introduce a set of nine bills as part of a sweeping 12-point plan to re-imagine Washington, and put an end to the intolerable political migraine that's gripped…

Tulsa, the second largest city in Oklahoma, is one of a select handful of American cities bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics games. It would be the first U.S. city to host the Olympics since Salt Lake City in 2002, and only the fifth to host…

What if it were possible to transplant your head? Or, more appropriately, what if you could get a new body … you know, if something unfortunate happened to the one you were born with? One scientist from the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group…

After New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with murder in the death of 27-year-old semi-pro Boston Bandits player Odin Lloyd, the NFL stopped selling Hernandez jerseys. But that doesn't mean…

BlackBerry, the company formerly known as Research in Motion, has hit another disappointing bump as the company announced an $84 million loss on Friday, despite the announcement of the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10, as well as a new mobile operating…

As former national security contractor Edward Snowden remains holed-up in the legally ambiguous transit zone inside Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport, officials from Russia, Ecuador and the United States seem deeply divided about how to…

Republicans have long been taking shots at former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the clear favorite for the 2016 Democratic nominee should she choose to run. But after months of fruitless scandal-seeking investigations into the September…

Coinciding with upcoming July 4 celebrations, a new group calling themselves Restore the Fourth is planning over 100 peaceful protests next week to "demand the government of the United States of America adhere to its constitutionally dictated limits…

Texas Senator Wendy Davis’ monumental filibuster last week quickly made her an overnight Democrat sensation and champion against the growing male-dominated march towards decreased reproductive choices for women. And it did so because Davis stood…

2013 has been a historic year for LGBT civil rights — Minnesota, Rhode Island, and Delaware passed marriage equality, making 12 states and the District of Columbia that allow gays and lesbians to marry. The Boy Scouts of America voted in May to lift…

Robert Anthony, writing for the online relationship blog YourTango, raises a little-considered facet of workplace gender discrimination — single dads. As a divorced parent, he describes the experience of being unable to attain the sort of…

Facebook was hit with yet another privacy complaint last week when an anti-virus company determined Facebook’s Android app was indiscriminately collecting user cell phone numbers and sending them back to company servers. Symantec, the company that…

“The stay in the above matter is dissolved immediately.” And with that single sentence, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for gay marriages to begin again in California, lifting its stay on an earlier injunction ordering…

It’s a large group, and a quiet one. Easily forgotten. Large in number, with a small voice, dwindling political capital, growing disenfranchisement and withering finances. They are the long-term unemployed, those who have been out of work for six…

The anti-gay marriage legislation DOMA has been struck down in the Supreme Court. Gay marriage has been upheld in California. So what does this mean for states? Minnesota made headlines two months ago by taking up a vote on same sex marriage,…

House representatives announced the "Restore Honor to Service Members Act" last Wednesday, seeking to retroactively correct the records of gay and lesbian veterans who were dishonorably discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT). "As we…

Right-wing conservatives put out a head-scratching letter of warning this week, vowing to take a stand if the Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage. The bizarre letter, signed by over 200 embattled anti-LGBT activists, reads like a sort of…

Liberal economist Paul Krugman accuses Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke of caving to his critics, criticizing him for his announcement last week that the Federal Reserve plans to scale back its stimulus programs as early as later this year. Writing in his…

The movie-worthy saga around former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden ramped up significantly over the weekend, as petitions were signed, espionage charges pressed, and extradition attempts failed. In another twist on Monday,…