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Archives: Voter suppression
First, the Soviets Collapsed: Is it America’s Turn Now?
By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Jump into your time machine and let me transport you back to another age. It’s May 2001 and the Atlantic Monthly has…
Even Conservative SCOTUS can’t Stomach N Carolina Voter Suppression
by Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org | - - North Carolina's Voter ID Law Meets 'Its Much-Deserved Demise' Decision by U.S. Supreme Court not to review appeals court decision on 2013…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren silenced on Floor for Reading King Letter re: Sessions
CNN International | (Video News Report with text Appendix) In an extremely rare rebuke, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren was cut off while speaking on the Senate floor. She had been reading a…
Reflections by a Middle Easterner on the Electoral College as a Remnant of Elite Tribalism
By Hsain Ilahiane | (Informed Comment) | - - The Founding Fathers wrote the electoral college in the United States Constitution. In late summer 2004, I became a naturalized United States citizen…
Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina
By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - 'Injunction will help make sure not a single voters’ voice is unlawfully taken away,' says Rev. William Barber II of…
Ghosts of King George III: Top 5 Things that threaten American Independence Today
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The things that irked the residents of the Thirteen Colonies about British rule have reemerged from other quarters to threaten American democracy. The…
Baltimore Protests: What The Media Isn’t Showing You
AJ+ | - "Burning buildings, shattered glass, riot police: This looping portrait of Baltimore – on TV and online – has become the defining narrative of protests spurred by the death of…
African-Americans still struggle for Full Citizenship Rights, Voting Rights
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - 50 years after the Selma march to Montgomery, African-Americans still face substantial impediments to their full citizenship in the United States. We all saw the…
In New Gilded Age, Social Protest dominates Academy Awards Ceremony
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - If social and economic inequality were a mine, and if America were deep in this mine with a canary in tow, the canary would long…
How Public Power can get Big Money out of Politics & Defeat Plutocrats
Bill Moyers | --- Bill Moyers: "How Public Power Can Defeat Plutocrats" via BillMoyers.com "Government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats with deep pockets to buy the politicians who grease…
How Secret Millionaire Donors Bought the Midterms with Dark Money Superpacs
by Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica In the final weeks before this year's elections, a super PAC called Key Questions, Key Answers started buying TV ads across Pennsylvania attacking Tom Wolf, the Democratic candidate…
Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections (Moyers)
Bill Moyers: "Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s independent senator, is angry about what he sees as big money’s wholesale purchase of political power. It’s a grave threat, he believes, not only to our electoral…