| Jun 14, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyHarassment, intimidation, and physical violence against religious and ethnic minorities is on the rise. And some experts worry the Trump administration is making things worse. The attack on a Portland commuter train by a knife-wielding white nationalist who was...
| Apr 26, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyMy nieces, who range in age from 17 to 25, grew up in a very different world from the one I knew coming of age in the 1970s. For their entire lives, abortion has been legal. And Planned Parenthood and other women’s clinics have served as a steadfast source of health...
| Feb 8, 2017 | Rights / DemocracyOne of the primary purposes of the U.S. Constitution is to establish justice. It’s right there in the opening words: “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice…” It’s our Supreme Court that has the responsibility of...
| Dec 14, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyPresident-elect Donald Trump recently picked Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as his nominee for U.S. attorney general, a position that leads the Department of Justice and serves as the top law enforcement officer for the country. But even a cursory look at Sessions’...
| Nov 2, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyWhen 95-year-old Rosanell Eaton first registered to vote in the Jim Crow South, she was forced to pass a written literacy test and recite the preamble of the Constitution from memory. Seven decades after becoming one of the first African American voters in her county,...
