The Electoral College system essentially identifies the states where malicious people who want to alter or undermine the election results should focus their energies.
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Vance filled his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" with selections from the greatest hits of “poornography”—violence, drugs, sex, obscenity and filth. But Vance himself was never actually impoverished.
Many members of Congress have embraced styles of communication that effectively undermine not just their opponents but the very democratic systems that give legitimacy to their own positions of status and power.
Roads, railways and bridges are experiencing increasing levels of damage and degradation because of the steady rise in temperatures. Left unconfronted, this situation will only worsen.
Kamala Harris has a real opportunity to contrast her humor and positive energy with a very dark vision from the GOP—without letting them dictate when it’s OK for her to laugh.
Whether Kamala Harris will be an effective president is a matter for the voters to decide in a few months. But as a legal matter, she is absolutely eligible to hold the office.
If there was any speculation that Republicans would revert to some form of traditional conservatism after Trump leaves politics, the prospect of a JD Vance presidency makes clear that the answer is no.
The intense attacks against Harris so far are only a fraction of what will come. Trump is skilled at both character assassination and political self-defense.
The tradition of picking a nominee through primaries and caucuses—and not through what is called the “convention system”—is relatively recent.
Ukrainians have been able to destroy 26 Russian vessels since the start of the war and force Russia’s powerful Black Sea Fleet to flee hundreds of miles to a safer harbor.
Economic boycotts by Black residents in Southern cities such as Birmingham and Nashville, Tennessee, played crucial roles during the civil rights era.
The Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has been desperately trying to keep their wealth and avoid prosecution through a bankruptcy settlement. Hopefully a reckoning is now closer.
Homelessness in the U.S. is a function of poverty, not criminality, and criminalizing people experiencing homelessness in no way helps solve the problem—it just makes it worse.
Many journalists and political scientists view populism as a “cultural backlash” of conservative white men who fear the loss of their privilege in a diversifying world.
The legacy of slavery is still enshrined in thousands of judicial opinions and briefs that are cited today by American judges and lawyers in cases involving everything from property rights to criminal law.
200 years ago, welfare reformers could have turned an eye on the systemic drivers of poverty. Instead, they focused on supposed scammers who didn’t really exist.