More Red States Mulling Green Light for Medicaid Expansion
Reading Time: 6 minutes Pandemic concerns — and ballot initiatives — are changing minds in holdout states.
Reparations and Juneteenth
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is $300,000 per person an extravagant amount to pay Black citizens for generational poverty originating with slavery?
The ‘Plague’ of Fascism Infecting Trump’s America
Reading Time: 8 minutes President Trump has moved way beyond dog whistles with full-throated threats against protesters.
Our Counterfeit President
Reading Time: 7 minutes The Big House or the White House: thefts of different magnitudes and their inverse results.
What Florida Officials May Be Hiding on COVID-19
Reading Time: 4 minutes Will bringing the Republican Convention to Jacksonville spike more than Floridians’ frustration?
Has Trump Backer and Education Czar Betsy DeVos Gone Too Far?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Wealthy private schools receive stimulus funds, leaving public schools that serve underprivileged students with even greater budget shortfalls.
Editors’ Picks: Special Uprising Edition
Reading Time: 10 minutes A roundup of reporting, commentary, and analysis related to the recent international demonstrations against racism and police brutality.
Unique Recollections of the Night RFK Was Gunned Down
Reading Time: 23 minutes Paul Schrade was shot in the head the night Bobby Kennedy was killed. A longtime friend of RFK, he tells us what he knows, what he witnessed, and what he thinks.
Fear of Potential Vote-by-Mail Fraud Sparks Clashes Between Voting-Rights Groups
Reading Time: 5 minutes With only five months until the 2020 election, supporters of vote-by-mail want every voter to have the option of casting an absentee ballot.
Federal Court Strikes Down ‘Poll Tax’ for Former Felons
Reading Time: 3 minutes A landmark federal ruling makes clear that states cannot impose undue taxes on individuals with past felony convictions as a condition for voting.