The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the use of racist literacy tests and poll taxes to ban Black voters. It came too…
Ballot measure 309 would ban the only slaughterhouse in Denver, which processes up to 20% of the country’s lamb product.
A professor of urban journalism explains what the national press has overlooked about Detroit’s grit and revival.
While the US supports nonpartisan election observers in other countries, the practice has a low profile in this country.
No, it’s not the TV news networks. The presidential election certification process is a lot more complicated than that…
The work of estimating conflict mortality is difficult. But that doesn’t make this grim exercise, nor accounting for the…
The 2024 campaign closes with candidate Donald Trump and allies conjuring a world of insult and degradation of an infantilized,…
On Nov. 15, 1960, four Black first graders desegregated New Orleans schools. One of them was Tessie Prevost, who died in…
The use of national tariffs in the US began in 1791, led by Alexander Hamilton, and grew throughout the 19th century, in…
Despite the power that political independents are anticipated to have over the election results, there’s a lot that remains…
The past two administrations had vastly different records, and past is likely to be a prologue this year.
US election coverage often portrays rural America as entirely white and conservative. This narrow view obscures the issues…