Michigan initiatives clash on how to stop GOP’s election deniers
Competing state constitutional amendments go to different lengths to enshrine voting rights and target anti-voter legislation and court rulings.
When billionaires don’t pay taxes, people ‘lose faith in democracy’
The rich can live lavishly by employing a technique known as “Buy, Borrow, Die,” in which they buy or build assets, borrow against them and then avoid estate and gift taxes when they die.
Joe Manchin’s America
The resurgence of the culture-of-poverty debate.
Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court: 7 questions answered
Alexis Karteron, director of the Constitutional Rights Clinic at Rutgers University Law School, gives her impressions of the nomination.
Bob Dylan and the Ukraine crisis
In recent days, media coverage of a possible summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin has taken on almost wistful qualities, as though the horsemen of the apocalypse are already out of the barn.
How does the majority rule without a functional majority? Or defeat the tyranny of...
Majority rule is both a rational philosophy, honoring the universality of human dignity, plus the core western political value for decision-making.
From the kingpins of private equity, a new dagger to democracy
Profit maximizing in the newspaper industry is corroding the knowledge base that sustains government by the people.
The Jan. 6 committee, 4 key investigations; Trump can run, but he can’t hide!
His time is up. His future will be very rocky and painful if these various investigators do their job.
What is going to happen in Ukraine?
We need to work with all our neighbors to solve the very serious problems facing humanity in the 21st Century.
Just 6% of US House seats expected to be competitive thanks to rigged maps
The vast majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are becoming non-competitive.