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For Those Who Don’t Want to Vote for the Lesser of...

Ranked-choice voting is catching on, and Maine might become the first state to help citizens vote for candidates they actually want.

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The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., site of the August 28 rally. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Thousands rally at Lincoln Memorial to defend voting rights

Civil rights leaders say this is the first march since the Supreme Court gutted a core Voting Rights Act protection.

Utah’s 1,300-bed homelessness “accountability center” tests Trump-era crackdown

Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.
Syracuse University's campus. Photo: John Marino / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Syracuse University Seeks to Prevent Campus Rape Victim From Obtaining Police Records

The university, whose 1980s rape crisis figured prominently in a ProPublica article, committed to support survivors at “every step of the process.” Now it’s in court to stop police from sharing many records with a student who was assaulted in 1987.
A Walmart store. Photo: Ben Schumin / CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Low-wage S&P 500 companies spent $718 billion on stock buybacks since 2019, report finds

The same 100 corporations pay their median workers 614 times less than their CEOs and lobbied for cuts to the food and health aid those workers rely on
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Mr. Kjetil Ree / CC BY-SA 3.0

Supreme Court lets Trump’s mail ballot order advance, calls states’ challenge premature

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a solo dissent that the ruling needlessly injects chaos into an election two months away.