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Denver Black Lives Matter protestors remember Michael Brown and others killed...

Protestors gathered at Sonny Lawson Park in Five Points and marched to the Denver County Courthouse to protest police violence and mourn the anniversary of...

Wiretap: Eric Garner’s family agrees to $5.9 million settlement

I can't breathe Nearly a year after Eric Garner died at the hands of an NYPD officer, the city settled with his family for $5.9 million. It's a...

Wiretap: Hillary Clinton embraces her gender and age

Settling in Gail Sheehy writes in Politico that it's taken Clinton, who would be the Grandmother In Chief, nearly a political lifetime, but she's finally...

Wiretap: Gardner won by tossing over the tea party. How will...

Tom Edsall writes that Cory Gardner became the Republican model by tossing over the Tea Party baggage. Can he live up to his role...

Littwin: We’re having the race conversation

If you believe the polls, or watch cable TV news, you may be halfway convinced that race relations in America have somehow grown worse...

Latino Forum extends olive branch-invite to Hickenlooper, pushes police reform

The Colorado Latino Forum made it clear today that they haven't forgotten Gov. John Hickenlooper's controversial statements on immigration reform last month, in which...

Littwin on America’s ham sandwich justice system

Anyone surprised by the Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict the cop in the death of Eric Garner hasn't been paying attention. Of...

Wiretap: New York is the new Ferguson

Another grand jury has said another cop who killed an unarmed black man -- this time, with video evidence presented -- should not have...