Voting rights have always been inconsistently applied. Now the coronavirus pandemic is threatening those rights even more, and activists are pushing back.
Black Americans braved police violence at Selma and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act. Fifty years later, the Supreme Court鈥檚 Shelby decision ushered in a new era of racially targeted voter suppression.
Although each state's constitution contains a right to education, state courts interpret these rights in different ways鈥攕ometimes to the detriment of children.
When the Trump Administration fails the test of guiding the nation during a crisis, local officials have picked up the reins of power鈥攆or better or for worse.
By insisting that Wisconsin鈥檚 primary election proceed in-person, Republicans inadvertently showed why early voting and mail-in ballots should be a priority.
Political interest is high鈥 from the number of small-donor contributions made to presidential candidates to cable news viewership鈥攕ignaling voter turnout may reach new heights in November.
Fears of a new U.S. war in the Middle East surged at the beginning of the year, along with speculation that the government could reinstate the military draft. In this
As an independent candidate for public office, Tiffany Bond might typically be seen as a spoiler in a conventional election. But when she ran for Congress in 2018 in Maine鈥檚
Bill Clinton鈥檚 Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers, admits that he never visited Rust Belt cities devastated by NAFTA. Displaced White workers 鈥渨eren鈥檛 heavily on our radar screen,鈥 he said, noting that
As I鈥檓 writing this, the House Judiciary Committee has unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Trump which, according to my awesome powers of precognition, are going to get approved