Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%
From today’s New York Times: The clock was ticking for Jen Miller. The state of Ohio had released names of 235,000 voters it planned to purge from voter rolls in…
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Worker rights are shaping up a key issue in 2020. Who has the best ideas?
From today’s New York Magazine: Never before have I seen Democratic candidates do so much to woo workers and win over union leaders. Elizabeth Warren kicked off her campaign at…
Can Someone Be Fired for Being Gay? The Supreme Court Will Decide
From today’s New York Times: The Supreme Court has delivered a remarkable series of victories to the gay rights movement over the last two decades, culminating in a ruling that…
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The American Economy Is Creating a National Identity Crisis for Workers
From today’s New York Times: Europeans often describe the United States as a great place to buy stuff but a terrible place to work. They understand the appeal of our…
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99 Years After Women’s Suffrage, the Fight for the Vote Continues
From today’s Time Magazine: The observance of Women’s Equality Day on Monday marks the 99th anniversary of the day the 19th Amendment, extending the vote to women, entered the Constitution…
Stacey Abrams’s Fight for a Fair Vote
From today’s New Yorker Magazine: mong the many issues currently polarizing American politics—abortion, climate change, health care, immigration, gun control—one of the most consequential tends to be one of the…
Trump won key union workers in 2016. Will Scalia as labor secretary change that for 2020?
From PBS Newshour Online: To critics, the nomination of a labor secretary who built his career fighting unions underscores a President Donald Trump’s attacks against organized labor. But for Trump,…
Trump administration gives up fight over citizenship question on the census
From today’s Los Angeles Times: The Trump administration, abruptly switching course, has decided to give up its fight to add a question about citizenship to next year’s census. Word of…
Supreme Court decides federal judges cannot block gerrymandering
From today’s CNBC Online: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal courts may not block gerrymandering in a 5-4 decision that fell along partisan lines. The court also ruled, in…
Trump Is Urged to Fire Kellyanne Conway for Hatch Act Violations
From today’s New York Times: An independent government agency recommended on Thursday that President Trump fire Kellyanne Conway, his White House counselor, for repeated violations of an ethics law barring…