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How Some States Are Responding to the Worst Attack on Voting Rights in Decades
Capital B via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWhen a panel from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling limiting who can sue under...
Abcarian: Why are Republicans making it harder for some people to vote? It's not just partisanship
Los Angeles Times· 1 day agoOf all the modern Supreme Court’s incredibly disappointing rulings, gutting the Voting Rights Act of...
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s up-close view of JFK and LBJ
The Day· 1 day 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...
Samuel Alito Has Fox News Brain
New Republic· 6 days agoOne of them is whether the state justified a challenge law on the basis of fighting voter fraud. “Fraud can affect the outcome of a close ...
A century ago, anti-immigrant backlash almost closed America’s doors
The Conversation· 6 days agoOne hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress enacted the most notorious immigration legislation in American history. Signed by President Calvin Coolidge, the Immigration
Williams: On civil rights, policies must outweigh political platitudes
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 6 days agoAs Gov. Glenn Youngkin spoke at the historic site of a student walkout on the 70th anniversary of...
Why ‘We The People’ should vote - The Times-Independent
The Moab Times-Independent· 5 days agoIn 1981, at Ronald Reagan’s inauguration to become the 40th President of the United States, he told...
The American Presidency with Bill Clinton TV Listings and Info Page 1
Broadway World· 5 days agoThe American Presidency with Bill Clinton news coverage including articles, photos, videos & more.
Why Is This Happening? Resisting the right-wing attack on democracy with Ari Berman
MSNBC· 3 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· 3 days agoExactly 100 years ago this May, Congress passed a bill that allowed millions of Black Americans to...