Last week, when I wrote my Monday Musings post, I was pretty ticked off at the world. And this week, after watching “protesters” in Michigan, North Carolina, and other states take part in the worst sort of astroturf demonstrations, one might expect that my mood would be even worse. ...
House, Senate, and in the states we need to win in November, enabling us to enact laws that truly benefit the American people.” The group includes delegates from California, Texas, Florida, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina and several other states....
Court Upholds Gun Ban: On Friday, August 11, 2023, following a tragic mass shooting in Chicago's Highland Park 2022, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld a ban on assault-style rifles and large-capacity magazines. The 4-3 majority rejected Republican allegations that the prohibition violated the ...
infrastructure projects in-depth. Today, we’ll be talking about a proposed project in the Boston area: the North-South Rail Link. Like many cities in the Northeast, Boston’s commuter rail system is fractured into two halves due to a legacy of the system: the commuter rail system was ...
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times this century that they won the electoral college they lost the popular vote—we win the House, we even win the Senate, but look at the state races. We’ve gotten creamed. Is it any wonder that the abortion laws in a majority of states could have been written the Federalist ...
On the Clock, another book focused on low-wage toil, painted an even bleaker picture. Laid-off reporter Emily Guendelsberger spent an exhausting, painful month at a massive warehouse in Kentucky, then traveled to North Carolina for a job at a call center. In addition to fascinating detail ...
Unlike the central theme of media coverage, which seems to have been focussed solely on the gun laws, I maintain that there is no one single cause that needs to be looked at; no one single course of action, on its own, that needs to be taken in response to Connecticut and all the ...
The resol- ution of the disputed 1876 presidential election by the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction; Jim Crow laws soon disenfranchised many African Americans. In the North, urbanization and an unprecedented influx of immigrants hastened the country's industrialization. The wave of immigration, ...