Republican leadership across this country is declaring open war on diversity, on education, on the legitimacy of our elections. Our checks and balances have been compromised—and Democrats are warring with one another.
Human Rights & Justice
Unelected judges shouldn’t have the power to take away rights most Americans support. The Constitution begins with “We the People...” because we are ultimately responsible for realizing its promise.
Originalism is the idea that we should interpret the Constitution with its original meaning. But what, exactly, is the Constitution’s “original meaning”?
Many cancer patients face difficult financial choices. About 4 in 10 with debt have taken money out of a retirement, college, or other long-term savings account. About 3 in 10 have moved in with family or friends or made another change in their living situation.
Instead of practicing justice, the Supreme Court has descended to the practice of prejudice—something we have all trusted that it would never do.
The story of Rosie Greenstein, The Redhead of Auschwitz shows the power of a single person's decision to survive no matter what.
I’m never uneasy about Muslims or undocumented people or migrant families passing me on the street. No, it’s pissed-off, entitled, gun-toting, professed Christian white bigots emboldened by our former President who terrify me.
If you’re worried about incurring medical debt during a health crisis or are struggling to deal with bills you already have, you’re not alone.
The phrase "use it or lose it" never meant as much as it does now. A concentrated effort is underway in more than half our states to curtail our ability to vote or simply ignore our choices. We can't let this happen.
Despite he and his party’s relentless efforts, Donald Trump could not quite successfully manage a bloodless or bloody coup in the wake of the 2020 Presidential election, but it turns out he didn’t need to.
The Supreme Court's recent decisions are insanely unpopular; we have to make that matter. We must change the political dynamic that has been sending us towards some variety of right-wing theocratic fascism.
The judicial coup coming from this court is by no means over. Next term, the Supreme Court will hear a redistricting case that could make it far easier to concoct a legal pretense for overriding the popular vote in elections.
Marches are awe-inspiring, goosebump-inducing, breathtakingly cathartic moments. But marches don’t vote. We need to march all the way to November, all the way to the polls—and for all our lives.
Georgia’s law is not the strictest abortion law in the country, but it would severely limit access to the procedure.
Assessing a terribly broken system, a veteran analyst details the conflicting dynamics and possible solutions to America's illegal immigration dilemma.
Republicans respond to any example of their extremism with a grab bag of rehearsed misdirections—lying, denying, cherry-picking, gaslighting, what-abouting, culture-warring, or simply counterattacking Biden, Blackness, and wokeness.
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