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Abcarian: Why are Republicans making it harder for some people to vote? It's not just partisanship
Los Angeles Times· 4 days agoOf all the modern Supreme Court’s incredibly disappointing rulings, gutting the Voting Rights Act of...
What an Average Home Cost in the Year You Were Born
GOBankingRates via Yahoo Finance· 2 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...
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s up-close view of JFK and LBJ
The Day· 4 days ago...to produce “an unnerving force field of persuasive power,” famously known as “the treatment,” Johnson relentlessly hammered members of Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, immigration reform, Medicare, Medicaid and the first federally funded aid program...
Today's Supreme Court is Anti-Voter | Washington Monthly
Washington Monthly· 2 days agoThe Supreme Court has done it again. It has placed its thumb firmly on the scale in favor of...
Commentary: Supreme Court doesn’t agree on what racism is
Fairfield-Suisun Daily Republic· 2 days agoThis simple-sounding rule poses a serious practical problem, however, in places where there is a...
A century ago, anti-immigrant backlash almost closed America’s doors
National Catholic Reporter· 2 days agoOne hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress enacted the most notorious immigration legislation in...
In search of the Beloved Community: Remembering Congressman John Lewis
WUSF 89.7· 2 days agoWhen the Georgia representative died in 2020, aged 80, America had changed profoundly from when Lewis fought for desegregation as a young civil rights activist. Lewis himself sometimes marveled ...
Why Is This Happening? Resisting the right-wing attack on democracy with Ari Berman
MSNBC· 6 days agoThis week, we’re sharing a recording of an event hosted at the Center for Brooklyn History where...
Beck: Congress should learn from the 1924 Immigration Act
Detroit News· 7 days agoExactly 100 years ago this May, Congress passed a bill that allowed millions of Black Americans to...
Democrats and Republicans keep colliding over contraception
The Raw Story· 3 days agoDemocratic lawmakers across the country have pushed to preserve access to any type of reproductive...