| Nov 21, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyWell, that didn’t take long. Just three days after a diverse coalition of voters re-elected President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court announced that it’s going to review the Voting Rights Act. The justices will look at Section 5 of the landmark...
| | Economy / BusinessBarack Obama won his re-election fight because Americans who are committed to moving forward turned out in record numbers to vote, especially in battleground states. But we can’t go forward unless Congress sits down and makes the hard decisions required to...
| Oct 24, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyAt my age, I thought I’d seen pretty much everything — and I’ve been to the carny sideshow at the Texas State Fair twice. But now comes a Houston-based, tea-party outfit calling itself True the Vote. It claims to be dedicated to sniffing out...
| Jul 23, 2012 | Environment / HealthNature’s on A downward path, Save her with Some voter wrath. America’s rare environmental victories often earn headlines. They might involve the successful blocking of a dangerous pipeline, a new mercury standard for coal, or perhaps the signing of a...
| Jul 9, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyIn one of those strange coincidences that make life read like a cheap novel, Jerry Sandusky and Monsignor William Lynn were convicted at almost the same moment by two Pennsylvania juries of charges growing out of sex scandals involving the molestation of underage...
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