by Jeff Bryant | Nov 16, 2018 | Blog
One of the big winners in the 2018 midterm elections you may not have heard about is education funding. This may come as news to you - because just as some observers incorrectly concluded last week's "Blue Wave" was merely a ripple, quick takes on midterm results on...
by Jacqueline Bediako | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog
Toxic environments, as evidenced by human exposure to dirty water or polluted air, are deadly for everyone. When the police shoot first and fill quotas, they are are also toxic. To connect these dots completely, we must understand how police brutality and toxic...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 14, 2018 | Blog
Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying — without much success — to get his Jacksonville, Florida neighbor to go with him to the mid-term election polls and vote. The young neighbor, a high-school-dropout, had no interest in taking the ride....
by Leo Gerard | Nov 12, 2018 | Blog
The voter turnout last Tuesday was historic – the highest in half a century, nearly half of the eligible electorate participated, an amazing number for a midterm. The United States Election Project estimates turnout at 49.2 percent. How high would it have risen...
by Miles Mogulescu | Nov 11, 2018 | Blog
“[W]e here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” --Abraham Lincoln,...
by Brooke Adams | Nov 9, 2018 | Blog
Young people are transforming conservative strongholds in this country. Take Iowa, the Midwestern home of Chuck Grassley, the 27-year GOP Senate veteran who got Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to the Supreme Court, and Steve King, the 4th District Congressman who openly...
