by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 24, 2015 | Blog
Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken some heat as a presidential candidate for seeming to not be a strong progressive ally on immigration reform. Last week, Sanders moved to clear the air. Sanders (I-Vt.) pledged his support for comprehensive immigration reform this past...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
The state of North Carolina is finally about to face a federal judge over its passage of what has been deemed the harshest voter suppression law in the nation – one of nearly 30 voter suppression laws passed since the Supreme Court eviscerated the Voting Rights Act in...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 12, 2015 | Democracy
Hillary Clinton gave a powerful and historic speech last Thursday on voting rights at Howard University. She called voting a “fundamental American principle,” and put forward many great policy proposals, including repairing the Voting Rights Act, instituting mandatory...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 11, 2015 | Climate
Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) waded deep into enemy territory Wednesday by introducing their revamped carbon tax bill at a conservative think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The “American Opportunity Carbon Fee Act of...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 9, 2015 | Education
In a step forward for the student debt movement, the Obama administration late Monday announced a process for “debt relief” for students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges. The announcement marks an end to a four-year investigation that has already...
