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History Repeats Itself -- Almost Jul. 19, 2023
We all know history doesn't really repeat itself, but it sure does echo through the decades and cent... Read More
Proposal Would Suppress Missourians' Voices, Not Confront Illegal Voting May. 05, 2023
The effort by Missouri's Republican-led Legislature to overhaul the process for changing the state c... Read More
The Stories We Tell Ourselves Oct. 22, 2021
Narcissus was a beautiful hunter in ancient Greece. He shunned all romantic advances. None were as b... Read More
Republican Ballot Reviews Lay Groundwork for Future Electoral Mischief Sep. 29, 2021
An Arizona ballot review designed to validate former President Donald Trump's fake vote-fraud claims... Read More
A Vote on Voting Rights: A stress test for Democracy Jun. 23, 2021
Miraculously, the system worked for declaring Juneteenth a national holiday — all the way from... Read More
Corporations Must Make Their Voices Heard When GOP Stifles Democracy Apr. 12, 2021
Companies with headquarters or major interests in Georgia are winning plaudits from progressives for... Read More
Time to Go: Protecting Voters' Rights Means Easing the Filibuster's Stranglehold Mar. 30, 2021
Folk singer Phil Ochs was biting about one state's especially noxious mistreatment of Black American... Read More
The Real Election Fraud Mar. 30, 2021
So it begins. Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, last week signed into law a raft of new res... Read More
Can GOP Autocracy Outlaw American Democracy? Mar. 24, 2021
Hey, you, get away from those polling places! No trespassing! We don't want your kind here! Scram! H... Read More
The Truth Nobody Tells About Our Voting Rules Mar. 19, 2021
There aren't a lot of people who tell the truth about voting rules. As the Senate takes up the bill ... Read More
GOP's Voter-Suppression Efforts Make Federal Reform Legislation Urgent Mar. 05, 2021
There is a ready response to the GOP's relentless campaign to restrict voting access: The "For the P... Read More
The GOP's Shameful War on Voters Mar. 03, 2021
As a general rule, I don't agree with Republican lawmakers, since they're generally wrong. But after... Read More
Block the Vote: The GOP's Suppression Obsession Feb. 09, 2021
Black History Month 2021 arrived just in time to cap a year in which white Americans' eyes have been... Read More
A Country Where People Are Afraid to Tell Pollsters What They Think Nov. 13, 2020
"I like a good contrarian argument as much as the next guy," tweets mild-mannered RealClearPolitics ... Read More
Was Gun Waving the Worst Part? Nov. 12, 2020
Some of the sickest images to come out of our recent turmoil have featured Americans waving guns at ... Read More
Sabotaging Democracy Oct. 14, 2020
Little-known fact: In more and more races, the GOP doesn't have broad enough appeal to fairly produc... Read More
Media and Money Jan. 31, 2019
It's not surprising that Democratic Party officials are reaching far down into their bench for someo... Read More
Sanders and the Snapchat Liberals Apr. 12, 2016
If the polls hold, scoring tickets to "Hamilton" will be as good as it's going to get for Bernie San... Read More
Hillary Clinton's Phantom Menace Jun. 11, 2015
Hillary Clinton has a new crusade. The Democrats' only name female candidate for president sees "a s... Read More
