Well, that didn’t take long. Within days of the Supreme Court’s decision to kill the longstanding, pre-clearance provision of the Voting Rights Act, six
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The gap between what’s legal and what’s just
St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan recently wrote a piece about how a cross engraved on the pitcher’s mound at Busch Stadium “gave him
Zimmerman not-guilty verdict: Commentary by political cartoonists
When a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin, sending justice back to the drawing board, that’s exactly where political
Upon further consideration, Mr. Nader
The recent Supreme Court decision that stripped the Voting Rights Act of 1965 of its essential enforcement powers reveals once again how political the
We have too many levels of government
Not too long ago I was with a group of well-informed people who were speaking about current events. When one gentleman was asked what
Supreme Court shreds Voting Rights Act: Political cartoonists respond
The Supreme Court has opened the floodgates: Less than a year since state legislatures, governors and secretaries of state in both the north and
This is what happens when the Supreme Court loses sight of common sense
Perhaps if it hadn’t been for the Bush v Gore Supreme Court case, we would give the Supremes the benefit of the doubt when
NSA vs. ACLU: Split Decision
The revelation that the federal government has been secretly gathering records on the phone calls and online activities of millions of Americans and foreigners
Pro Publica: 5 basic things we still don’t know about NSA data-mining
If you’re like me, you haven’t quite figured out what to think about the revelation that the National Security Administration has been amassing a
Measuring Republican nay-saying: The Index of Obstruction and Delay
Republicans can try to say it ain’t so, but a newly developed statistical measure says it is: The GOP’s delaying tactics and outright obstruction