Democratic Leaders Are Betraying Black Voters
In 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act by deploying a dubious legal doctrine with no textual roots in the Constitution, arguing that…
Japan’s youngest female mayor takes on its oldest all-male sport
One of the most interesting parts of this story is how the city where this woman is mayor and cities where other women are mayors in Japan have higher birth…
The Anatomy of Trumpocracy: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
…US political culture has long been dominated by oligarchical corporate and financial interests, militarism and jingoism, but the current Trumpocracy represents a new level of neoliberal cruelty. Indeed, the United…
This Detroiter Wants to Change How the City Votes
Garlin Gilchrist did a little informal poll worker training when he showed up to vote in Detroit’s primary in August — and he hopes that type of education will soon…
The unexpected side effect of Trump’s war on science
There’s something different about the crop of Democrats running for Congress in 2018. As in previous years, the party has recruited a small army of veterans in high-profile races and…