Tag: voting
Media silent as poll workers contract COVID-19 at primaries that DNC,...
And instead of reporting on this urgent story, the media have enabled this dangerous behavior.
Exit polls vs machine counts or, how you might rig a...
These kinds of large disparities between the exit polls and the machine counts might be dismissed as an anomaly but so many cases in so many states should probably have raised alarm bells.
Young people are set to make history with Bernie Sanders, and...
“Sanders is a movement candidate—who will be accountable to our generation.”
The biggest political party in America you’ve never heard of
Non-voters — those Americans eligible to vote but don’t — are in effect America’s biggest political party.
Five ways to empower voters now
Not voting can have dire consequences; the collateral damage is all around us.
About 60% of eligible U.S. voters...
What if we made the electoral college moot?
Immediately after the 2016 presidential election, many liberal circles were buzzing about how to prevent Donald Trump from taking office, especially after...
New York City’s early voting plan will favor white, affluent voters,...
In a letter, the New York Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause New York and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law said the plan “will impose a severe burden on many of the City’s low-income voters.”
A lower voting age isn’t just about politics
The least progressives can do is prioritize allowing the young a voice in deciding issues that vitally affect them. Teenagers deserve electoral power.
As national elections draw closer, millions of farmers facing economic despair...
As India’s agrarian crisis deepens, so too will the social unrest, which may force future elected officials to take action on the growing demands of India’s powerful rural populace.
Give children the vote, strengthen democracy
Facilitating such participation would not only encourage broader social responsibility among young people, it would enrich and strengthen democracy itself.
POPULAR
When will US join global call to end Ukraine War?
There are many peace initiatives to end the war in Ukraine being pursued by leaders and countries around the world as the United States clings to its dogged determination to prolong the war at great cost in Ukrainian lives and at the risk of nuclear war.
A global plastics treaty can end the Age of Plastic
This indigenous worldview can lead treaty negotiations, creating systems that are less demanding of our planet and value nature over profit.
The wars we don’t (care to) see
It couldn’t be more important to make America’s disastrous wars of this century more visible.
If pushing pardons for savage Jan. 6 seditionists isn’t unpardonable, what is?
Abusive pardons of the most serious crimes represent the great terrorist threat to self-government.
Climate activists decry pipeline ‘deal with the devil’ at protest outside Schumer’s home
"It's time to stop building fossil fuel infrastructure and that means no more pipelines. Chuck, stop appeasing Manchin!"