The Return of Jim Crow in North Carolina
By Lauren McCauley Rights Groups Call for Halt to 'Worst Since Jim Crow' Voting Law Hundreds of people were turned away outside of a packed courtroom in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Monday where...
View ArticleShould Americans be allowed to Serve in Foreign Armies?
AJ+ “An American, Douglas McAuthur McCain was killed fighting for the Islamic State group (formerly known as ISIS or ISIL) in Syria. He’s not the only American to have been killed fighting for foreign...
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The Plutocracy Strikes Back: The Pathologies of Rule by a Handful of...
By Steve Fraser via Tomdispatch.com George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth century. Amid a violent and protracted strike that shut down much of the country’s...
View ArticleAlabama Requires Photo IDs for Voting, Then Shutters DMV Offices in Black...
By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – “The ‘decision to cut out ID services to almost all counties with a majority black population is discriminatory and wrong,’ says ACLU of...
View ArticleDismissing ‘Low Quality Voters,’ Republican officials no longer support...
( Otherwords.org) – Hey, you, get away from those polling places! We don’t want your kind here! Scram! That’s a stupid, shameful, and ultimately self-defeating political message, yet it’s being pushed...
View ArticleVoter Suppression Is an Attack on Democracy — And My Faith
My faith teaches me to stand with the marginalized, whose voting rights are now under sustained assault. By Robert P. Alvarez | – ( Otherwords.org ) – I believe in God and in the right to vote....
View ArticleJim Crow was Never Dead, but the Black Church can Lead the Way in Banishing...
This is the civil rights issue of our time, and it’s a fight we can and must win. By Rev. Susan K. Smith and Rev. Levon C. Manzie | ( Otherwords.org) – We suspected it for years, and now we know it:...
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What the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona Law means for your Right to Vote
By Cornell William Clayton and Michael Ritter | – Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will make it harder for some residents to cast...
View ArticleWe Can Have the Filibuster or Democracy, But Not Both
The warning from democracy advocates is clear: Kill the filibuster and pass the For the People Act, or our democracy won’t survive. By Peter Certo | ( Otherwords.org) – The American political system is...
View ArticleFormer Leaders, Women, Plead with Taliban for Inclusive Afghanistan Government
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The privately owned Afghanistan news service Tolo reports that Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid affirmed that the movement intends to form a new government quickly....
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Elections: a Global Ranking rates US Weakest among Liberal Democracies
By Toby James, University of East Anglia; and Holly Ann Garnett, Royal Military College of Canada | – Defending democracy has suddenly become one of the central challenges of our age. The land war in...
View ArticleAbortion Rights should be considered a key Plank of religious Freedom
| Opinion | By Walter McClure | – ( Minnesota Reformer ) – Our Constitution guarantees all of us the right to free exercise of our personal religious and moral beliefs, be they for or against abortion....
View ArticleRoots of White Rage
Vancouver (Special to Informed Comment) Recent development show just how divided the United States of America really is. The latest polling shows that 72% of Americans believe that democracy is in...
View ArticleInvasion of the Mind Snatchers: How to Combat the GOP Election Denialists’...
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – In the 1978 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, an alien fungal spore infection takes over the minds of susceptible people, growing into pods that duplicate...
View ArticleBallot Initiatives let the People sidestep Right-Wing Politicians in this...
By Sarah Anderson | – ( Otherwords.org) – This fall, in the lead-up to the midterm elections, a group of Catholic nuns, Protestant ministers, and other faith leaders caravanned around South Dakota on...
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The Holy War of Saint Ron DeSantis on Florida’s Voters
By Jim Hightower | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Breaking news: After years of failed Republican efforts to uncover any proof of widespread voter fraud by Democrats, Republican Governor Ron “Tough Guy”...
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