Massachusetts Dem Rep says she’s boycotting inauguration of…

Democratic U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark says she will not be attending the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump because she doesn't want to "normalize" the "bigoted, misogynist, anti-Semitic, and racist" things he has said. TheHill.com reported Thursday on a Boston Globe report that Clark is the one Democratic elected official from Massachusetts who has chosen to boycott the inauguration.

Suddenly ita s Trump sounding soft on illegal immigration

Donald Trump defeated 16 rivals in the Republican primaries by being the most anti-immigrant of them all, promising to build a giant wall on the border and deport millions. He labeled opponents like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio as weak and amnesty-loving, and his extreme rhetoric pushed the entire immigration debate to the right.

Nathan Smith on the US Democrats opposing agenda to the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Party unity will keep US Democrats from opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership , despite both of the party's leading presidential nominees saying they are against the deal. Members of the Democratic National Convention platform committee have decided to move against including a specific opposition to the TPP in the platform that would have added language to the agreement rejecting the deal.

Is fear of Trump fueling immigrants’ push for citizenship?

Soon-to-be U.S. citizens clap after jury supervisor Fran Green explains the process of naturalization at the Joseph P. Kinneary United States Courthouse on March 1. Well, it seems that many immigrants, some of whom have lived and worked in, and in their hearts adopted, this country as their own, are eager to get that and the other privileges that come with becoming full-fledged Americans. The number of people applying to become U.S. citizens is at its highest level in four years, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of citizenship application data.