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‘I Am On Your Side’: How the Police Gave Armed Groups a Pass in 2020 (video)

Armed groups showed up to scores of racial justice protests since May. Video shows how police officers at times let them operate freely.

Rising Tide of Violence, Propaganda Reveal Tuesday’s Stakes for America: Freedom or Fascism?

The Philadelphia Police lied about rescuing a scared toddler during civil unrest when they had in fact beaten and detained his mother for hours without charges. Police in North Carolina tear gassed marchers to the polls. Will Bunch contends we should all be worried about a society where this can happen. 

George Shultz Speaks Out for Renewing U.S. Leadership Overseas

The long-serving Secretary of State's new book laments the unwillingness of current leadership to embrace the international cooperation and diplomacy needed to solve the world's largest problems.   

Now Is A Good Time To Talk To Kids About Civics

Election time is a perfect opportunity to help kids build up a foundation of knowledge.

Stanford Study Seeks to Quantify Infections Stemming From Trump Rallies

Stanford researchers, led by Professor B. Douglas Bernheim, the chairman of the university’s economics department, conducted a regression analysis. They compared the 18 counties where Mr. Trump held rallies with as many as 200 counties with similar demographics and similar trajectories of confirmed COVID-19 cases before the rally date.

In Michigan, a Suburban County That Flipped Blue Isn’t Looking Back

Oakland County, which was solidly red 12 years ago, is solidly blue, becoming a prime example of the changes that are taking place in many of the nation’s suburbs.

The Most Sacred Right

Frederick Douglass dreamed of a country where all people could vote and he did everything in his power to make that dream a reality. In the face of slavery, the Civil War and the violence of Jim Crow, he fought his entire life for what he believed was a sacred, natural right that should be available to all people - voting.  

Don't Expect a Contested Election

by Charlie Cook

A veteran political analyst says the likelihood of an election result close enough to be contested by Donald Trump is diminishing, and compares likely results in House and Senate races to historical patterns.  

The Vote Suppression Tipping Point

Have decades of efforts to stop Democratic constituencies from casting ballots become flagrant enough to inspire revenge by voting? 

The Long, Lonesome Roads of Jerry Jeff Walker

Music writer Amanda Petrusich remembers the iconoclastic songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker, who died this week at 78. 

London’s Centuries-Old Insurance Market Investigates Its Slavery Role

Assessing the current company's financial ties to slavery requires understanding how the entity functioned as a pass-through for buyers and sellers of merchant insurance, rather than as an underwriter or funder of insurance policies. 

There have been over 300 lawsuits, in 44 states, over voting rules. Here’s the latest.

The 2020 election may be fought in court as much as at the ballot box. A summary of legal actions affecting voting procedures and counting. 

New York Times, CNN Sullied By ‘Anonymous’ Charade

by Eric Wemple

Post media critic Eric Wemple says the media allowed "Anonymous" to float the belief that responsible public servants were checking the worst impulses of the Trump administration when, in fact, they accomplished nothing of the sort.

Trump's Rhetoric Casts Doubt on Election

For months, President Trump has been casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 election and mail-in ballots, even though legal and historical experts say there's no cause for concern.

California Tax Revolt Faces a Retreat, 40 Years Later

Mr. Jarvis, who died in 1986, framed his campaign as a way to make the tax system more equal, but Proposition 13’s legacy has been the opposite.

Developments Since My Birth

by Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn argues Trump has given Americans license to do what they've long wanted to do: abandon the moral obligation of compassion and even the work of paying lip service to it.

As Freshmen, They Voted for Trump. Has College Changed Their Minds?

They were all college freshmen when Donald Trump was elected president, and they all supported the businessman in 2016. After four years or so of college, have their views changed?

Today I Learned: Gloria Richardson is Still Alive

"President John F. Kennedy told protestors in Dorchester County to stand down. Gloria Richardson told JFK he could go to hell."

Trump’s Supreme Court Justices Show How They Might Help Him in Contested Election

"Now we have one Supreme Court justice identifying with Trump’s alleged horror of post-Election Night uncertainty, and two Supreme Court justices pointing the way to a state legislative hijacking of the results."

'I Don't Know if This Democracy Will Be Recognizable.' NAACP's President Says This Election is the Most Important in a Century

"The real opportunity in today’s moment is to see the peaceful protesters in the streets across the country that look like America: young, old, Black, white, male, female. That is something that that did not happen during the 1960s Civil Rights movement."