Cheryl Harris (UCLA)’s essay Whiteness as Property does pretty much what it says on the tin: rather than a social designation, a part of a code by which people are sorted and separated from each other, she proclaims whiteness as a thing that some people get to own and others do not....
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance is facing renewed criticism for saying the United States is run by ‘childless cat ladies.’ And political experts say such rhetoric could have disastrous effects on a demographic the GOP desperately needs
As more people are expected to vote by mail in the 2020 Election in November due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, much has been said about the security and accuracy of casting a ballot through the mail. One widely-viewed photo shared to Facebook claimed an Illinois couple who...
Given the divisions within the House GOP as well as the fact that the Senate is Democratic and the House is Republican, this might well take a long time to resolve. Remember, any resolution has to be bipartisan. And the Democratic Senate won’t vote for immigration reform. *Nellie Bowles’...
cause a commotion, but they certainly would not have been suspended; and if they had been, there would have been a First-Amendment lawsuit. The British police have better things to do than soothe the feelings of the offended or threaten people by interviewing them after “hate speech” ...
In California no one knows how many of the collected ballots were turned in? Corruption? Fraud? Dishonest elections? That is how we do it on California and the people that represent Republicans in California has said nothing. North Carolina vote fraud ca...
If you follow Kant – himself a crucial figure in the history of telling other people what to do – then there’s still an argument for voting politically, even if your vote doesn’t really matter: imagine if everyone acted that way. (In fact, you don’t even need to imagine; ...
The so-called “Dorr War” involved a dispute over the state’s first constitution, which severely restricted the right to vote. In 1842, after efforts to reform this system had been rebuffed for years, a large group of Rhode Islanders led by Thomas Dorr organized its own constitutional ...
she set herself up as a vote-counting pragmatist willing to tell voters that there’s no chance that a national abortion ban could become law. “We have to face this reality,” she said. “The pro-life laws that have passed in strongly Republican states will not be approved at the feder...
Elon Musk says the upcoming election in Germany “could decide the fate of Europe, maybe the fate of the world” and urges the German people to vote for the AfD party. UK: Outrage as police say asylum seekers hanging outside primary school and filming young girls is a ‘cultural issue.’...