America Decides 2020: Ranked-Choice Voting, Explained
Reading Time: 4 minutes We live in a two-party electoral system, with each side more opposed to compromise than ever before. What if we could rank more than one candidate and end the gridlock?
Election Offices Operate in Limbo as Congress Debates More Funds
Reading Time: 4 minutes Local election offices are preparing for a contentious November election but may not have enough staff or money to handle an expected surge of mail ballots.
Defunding Police: A Tale of Five Cities
Reading Time: 6 minutes Advocates say civilians, not cops, should respond to many calls.
Supreme Failures to Protect Elections from Partisanship
Reading Time: 8 minutes The fight over mail voting is symptomatic of deeper problems in American politics.
Pandemic Threatens American DREAMers
Reading Time: 13 minutes Undocumented students face greater challenges than ever in their pursuit of postsecondary education.
Young Children Risk Being Undercounted in 2020 Census
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trump’s executive order directing states to exclude noncitizens from the census may effectively erase children under five whose parents are undocumented from the count.
America Decides 2020: Voting by Mail, Explained
Reading Time: 5 minutes As the coronavirus spreads across the United States, vote-by-mail is growing in importance as a protection for both voters and election workers.
Judgment Days for John Muir and Margaret Sanger
Reading Time: 8 minutes The Sierra Club and Planned Parenthood of NY dismantle their own Monuments.
US Restrictions Threaten Admissions, Careers for Chinese STEM Students
Reading Time: 5 minutes A “China!” tweet turned their world upside down.
US Postal Service’s Ability to Deliver in November Questioned
Reading Time: 4 minutes The USPS needs money, and it needs it now. Whether it will receive funding in time to deliver millions of ballots in the next election is open to question.