Stories by Alex Kane

Instead of investigating and intimidating families without a permanent home, what if we gave them a place to go?

The Daily Show takes on how the Pentagon's lifting of the ban on women in combat led to right-wing outrage

The Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program authored a report that criticized the Treasury Department's approval of executive pay raises.

Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant sold 30,000 shares of stock in Monsanto in January, netting over $3 million.

Current TV's Cenk Uygur interviews Jamie DeWolf, who called Scientology a 'devious, systematic brainwashing system.'

A new report released by the anti-poverty group Oxfam is filled with staggering statistics that make clear the depth of the inequality problem.

On Monday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced that the U.S. would be giving Afghanistan their own fleet of unarmed drones.

Matthew Davies is facing years in prison after the Justice Department shut his medical marijuana operation down, which was perfectly legal under California state law.

A Washington, D.C. police officer who fired multiple shots into a car with three transgender women and their friends is getting off easy, and the transgender community has reacted with outrage.

The owner of The Stingray Cafe in New Bern, North Carolina took it upon himself to hand an anti-gay letter to a lesbian couple who ate at his restaurant.

President Obama tapped a man for the top CIA post who has supported drone strikes, torture and extraordinary rendition.

The new Congress includes a Hindu, a Buddhist and someone who doesn't identify with any religion, but the majority of members remain Christian.

The New York Times columnist blasts CEO Howard Schultz's prescriptions for how to avert tax increases and budget cuts.

Wall Street private equity firms are the latest roadblock gun safety advocates have to go up against.

A city in Arkansas is dealing with an increase in crime. The police chief thinks the solution to the problem is granting law enforcement expansive new powers.

A group of prominent and wealthy Americans is calling for a rise in the estate tax.

December 21 has become shorthand for “apocalyptic end of the world scenarios.”

The Russian prime minister makes a joke about alien invasions, and a hilarious bunch of serious reactions from UFO believers ensues.

Conservative fear-mongers claim a UN treaty ensuring rights for disabled people "undermines American sovereignty."