Slaughter was the kind of person we wish all politicians could be. A fighter for the public good, committed to her constituents, who entered politics to make a real difference, and was never corrupted away from that goal.

Some new documents for the original pitch for Star Trek: The Next Generation have surfaced, and they reveal a very different take on the Enterprise's crew, including a Vulcan captain who dies in the pilot but lives on in hologram form, able to be summoned by the acting captain.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lily Eskelsen García, the president of the National Education Association, shared their thoughts with education secretary Betsy Devos in the most appropriate way: report cards.

"I think my voice should have been heard then, and I'll still fight for it to be heard now. Americans are really upset with politics as usual, and I want to be a voice for them."

As a huge fan of Hillary Clinton, I want for this statement to not disappoint me. I want to find ways to justify it, to fill in the gaps and take it upon myself to presume what she must have really meant in the bits that fall short. But we can't do that.

Twelve lawmakers are planning to make a statement with their absence tonight, and many more have protests planned for the event itself.

Gillibrand says the silence from Republicans is "deafening" when it comes to the allegations against Steve Wynn.

There was a very hype segment of the public that was game for the idea of Oprah Winfrey running for office after her impressive and inspiring Golden Globe speech. But Oprah has made it clear, once again, that she has no intention to run for office.

"There are Republican women running for office for all different reasons, and no one is telling their story."

Why is no one telling Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden to take up freaking knitting?

The deadline for the U.S. federal government to pass spending legislation in order to avoid a shutdown is December 22nd. Among other things up for debate is the question of whether any spending bill should be passed without a clean DREAM Act. In order to stress the importance of this, seven "Dreamers" are on a hunger strike.

There were plenty of snubs in the Golden Globes nominations, but Jada Pinkett Smith has some words for the Hollywood Foreign Press specifically regarding Girls Trip. Not only are a lot of people upset over the lack of nominations for the movie and Tiffany Haddish–"hands down the funniest person on screen in 2017"–in particular, but Pinkett-Smith says she couldn't even get voters to watch the movie.

It is completely inappropriate to ask a woman–any woman–if she's ever been harassed. Especially in public. Especially by a man who is not engaging in any sort of empathetic reciprocal sharing, but instead demanding the story as if he's journalistically entitled to it. No woman owes anyone her story, not even Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Today is Giving Tuesday, the day after Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Sunday and Monday where we forget about being capitalist consumers for five minutes and remember that there are amazing causes that need our help. Here at TMS, there are many issues about which we're passionate, and we love supporting the organizations entirely devoted to helping those causes and communities.

Happy birthday to a seriously undervalued device with roots in Rennaisance engineering!

There's one guaranteed way to make sure your elected representatives are as passionate as you are about the issues you care about: be that representative! 

This Broadly documentary about Danica Roem captures both the mundane political practicalities of a state legislature run and the far-reaching significance of Roem's candidacy.