by Hedrick Smith | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog
The following was originally posted at Reclaim the American Dream “We make voting convenient with vote by mail and by sending a voters’ guide to every household in the state,” says Oregon Secretary of State Jeanne Atkins. “We make registration simple, with both...
by Hedrick Smith | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
David and Charles Koch. Illustration by DonkeyHotey (Creative Commons). Washington – If you’re tempted to think campaign megamillions no longer matter because maverick Republican Donald Trump is a self-financed near-nominee and Bernie Sanders has fomented a nationwide...
by Hedrick Smith | Feb 9, 2016 | Democracy
In a stunning defeat for what one judge called “gerrymandering on steroids,” a three-judge federal court has ruled that the Republican gerrymandering of North Carolina’s congressional districts in 2011 was unconstitutional on grounds that it was racially driven...
by Hedrick Smith | Feb 1, 2016 | Economy, Tax Reform
If you want to see what fires the grassroots passion for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, and the populist rebellion against the U.S corporate and political elite, take a look at the latest case of an American corporation’s gaming the system for handouts and bailouts...
by Hedrick Smith | Jan 19, 2016 | Democracy, Progressive Vision
Back in the 1960s, when I was covering Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis and other civil rights activists for The New York Times, I remember die-hard segregationists hurling an accusation at Dr. King that he was an “outside agitator.” “You’re comin’ into our town,”...
