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.
Reading Time: 10 minutes A roundup of reporting, commentary, and analysis related to the recent international demonstrations against racism and police brutality.
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.
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.
Reading Time: 3 minutes As states struggle to keep voters safe this November, Trump blusters, threatens, and lies.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Public health experts are begging Americans to stay home amid the coronavirus pandemic. But this is an election year, and it appears that Republicans are willing to take a chance on voters’ health in order to win.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed how progressive insurgents can score primary upsets: by connecting directly with voters and outworking their entrenched opponents. However, the coronavirus pandemic is making that much more difficult this year, so how do these challengers cope?
Reading Time: 21 minutes As President Donald Trump clears out the national security apparatus, the intelligence community empire strikes back — with Pete Buttigieg. Yet his NatSec credentials remain mysterious.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Is President Donald Trump the new American Caesar or just a historical blip?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A decade later and billions of dollars deep, Congress is finally considering a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United ruling.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thank you, Mitt Romney, for shaming your party.