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Abcarian: Why are Republicans making it harder for some people to vote? It's not just partisanship
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoOf all the modern Supreme Court’s incredibly disappointing rulings, gutting the Voting Rights Act of...
Here Are the Biggest World Events You've Lived Through If You're in Your 50s
247wallst.com· 20 hours agoIf you were born between 1965 and 1974, you’re in the best decade of your life—your 50s! You’ve...
The Indian Citizenship Act is 100 years old. What lessons have we learned?
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoIn fact, some states resisted giving full access to Indians until the Voting Rights Act of 1965...
Today's Supreme Court is Anti-Voter | Washington Monthly
Washington Monthly· 3 days agoThe Supreme Court has done it again. It has placed its thumb firmly on the scale in favor of...
Do we really believe in 'no taxation without representation'?
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAnd when the income tax came in, decades before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, they had to pay that,...
What an Average Home Cost in the Year You Were Born
GOBankingRates via Yahoo Finance· 3 days agoThe cost of buying a new home and mortgage rates fluctuate from year to year. To get a feel for the background environment of long-term housing trends in...
America pioneered war-crime justice at Nuremberg. Then we ran away.
Philly.com· 16 hours agoThe Nuremberg war crimes trials — a first-of-its-kind effort by America and its allies to hold World War II’s surviving Nazi leaders to account for invading Europe and the mass slaughter of ...
Lessons from Judge David Tatel’s Guide Dog on Blindness and Vision
New York Times· 4 days agoIn a new memoir, a retired federal appeals court judge who was once a leading candidate for the...
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s up-close view of JFK and LBJ
The Day· 5 days agoUsing what historian Doris Kearns Goodwin calls “a formidable combination of will, conviction, and energy” to produce “an unnerving force field of persuasive power,” famously known as “the treatment ...
Supreme Court doesn’t agree on what racism is
Las Vegas Sun· 5 hours agoAccording to the Supreme Court, it’s perfectly fine for state legislatures to draw congressional districts according to political party — they just can’t gerrymander by race. The conservative ...