Mitt Romney may not have liked it, but the new rules the Republican Party put in place for presidential the 2012 election season might
Category: Civil Rights
BillTrack 50: What’s up in your state legislature?
It’s about time someone created a way to keep a national watch on bills moving through state legislatures. And, fortunately, someone has. That someone
Drones: Coming to a neighborhood near you
Remember back in 2007 when we were freaking out at Google Maps photographing our neighborhoods? We were worried, and rightly so, about the invasion
It’s not the economy, stupid: It’s religion
James Carville may have been right in 1992, when he displayed a sign in the office of presidential candidate Bill Clinton saying, “It’s The
“Stand your ground” is really “Kill at will”
Gun lobbyists and their minions in state legislatures want us to believe that making it legal for people to shoot others because they feel
Voters need protection from self-appointed “vote protectors”
For now, at least, there’s not going to be a voter “protection” ballot measure on Missouri’s November 2012 ballot, and that’s good news for
Whose approval do Supreme Court justices want?
There aren’t many things that I remember from college classes. However, I do remember taking an American Government class when the professor was covering
When slaves sued for freedom: A city reckons with its past
In Memphis, they’ve turned the hotel where Martin Luther King was murdered into a museum honoring the Civil Rights Movement. Across the South, “Civil
Civil rights: How different is today from 1965?
The federal Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. Ironically, it passed just a year after Republican Senator Barry Goldwater’s launched his southern strategy
Imagining a conservative conversation about poverty
I saw a remarkable story on the March 19 CBS Evening News about photo-journalist Steve Liss, who has chronicled poverty in the United States.