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• Did Voting Restrictions Determine the Outcomes of Key Midterm Races?

  By konigludwig on November 6, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  By Ari Berman in The Nation Bryan McGowan spent twenty-two years in the US Marine Corps, including four tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. When he was stationed at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina from 2005 until 2010, McGowan used same-day… Read More ›

• Ted Cruz’s Big Adventure

  By konigludwig on November 3, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  If Republicans win the Senate, expect a ferocious tactical clash between Cruz and the actual leader Mitch McConnell “Ted Cruz’s big (awful) plans: Why a clash is coming if GOP wins majority” by Jim Newell in Salon No one’s more… Read More ›

• Egyptian activist Mahienour El-Massry receives international rights award

  By konigludwig on November 1, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  El-Massry dedicated the award she received in Italy to fellow activists still in prison Egyptian activist Mahienour El-Massry received the 2014 Ludovic Trarieux international human rights award in Florence on Friday. El-Massry was announced as the winner of the award… Read More ›

• Jim Crow returns: Millions of minority voters threatened by electoral purge

  By konigludwig on October 31, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voters from the rolls. Millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters, are at risk. Already, tens of thousands have been removed… Read More ›

• Iran Executes Woman for Murdering Alleged Rapist Despite International Campaign for a Retrial

  By konigludwig on October 25, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  By Daniel Politi in Slate Iran hanged a woman on Saturday who was convicted of murdering a man she said tried to rape her, ignoring an international campaign urging the country to spare her life. Reyhaneh Jabbari was sentenced to… Read More ›

• How One Man Refused to Spy on Fellow Muslims for the FBI—and Then Lost Everything

  By konigludwig on October 15, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  On the night of December 9, 2011, Siham Stewart called her husband, Ayyub Abdul-Alim, as he closed down his corner store, Nature’s Garden, in Springfield, Massachusetts. She asked him to bring home a gallon of milk. A few minutes later,… Read More ›

• Republican-Majority Senate Is Starting to Look Likelier

  By konigludwig on October 14, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  By Nate Cohn in The New York Times President Obama, even in his worst hours after the first presidential debate in 2012, held a consistent lead in Wisconsin, Ohio and Nevada. It was always enough to win re-election, and he… Read More ›

• Missouri GOP’s sham early voting proposal

  By konigludwig on October 8, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  Excepts from “Vote ‘no’ on Missouri’s sham early voting proposal” in The Kansas City Star Missouri is in the dark ages when it comes to early voting. But a measure on the upcoming statewide ballot is not the path to… Read More ›

• Voodoo Economics, the Next Generation

  By konigludwig on October 7, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  By Paul Krugman in The New York Times Even if Republicans take the Senate this year, gaining control of both houses of Congress, they won’t gain much in conventional terms: They’re already able to block legislation, and they still won’t… Read More ›

• The Bedrooms Of Children Around The World: Creative Video Showing Child Poverty and Economic Inequality Worldwide

  By konigludwig on October 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

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