Politics
The Men Who Turned Slavery Into Big Business
(The Atlantic) - They did it not only through remorseless violence but also by taking maximum advantage of the fact that enslaved...
More than 100 companies sign letter opposing U.S. state...
(Reuters) -More than 100 U.S. companies including Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Ford Motor Co and Starbucks Corp have declared their...
McConnell says companies should stay out of politics —...
(WaPo) - After the Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that companies could finance election spending, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell...
Media are falling into Stephen Miller’s trap
(Boston Globe) - Journalists who normalize Trump’s former senior adviser ‘are helping him launder his white supremacist ideas into...
Republicans Push for Greater Power Over How Elections Are...
(NYT) - G.O.P. lawmakers in at least eight states controlled by the party are trying to seize more influence over the mechanics of...
Some Democrats fear midterm backlash without filibuster...
(CBS News) - The president was acknowledging that the fate of his agenda is tied to Senate procedure, which makes it difficult to...
Not a single Republican in either chamber of Congress voted...
(Yahoo News) - Not a single Republican lawmaker in either chamber voted in favor of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion economic aid...
Stolen-Election Myth Fuels a G.O.P. Drive to Rewrite Rules
(NYT) - Republican legislators want big changes to the laws for elections and other aspects of governance. A fight over the ground...
Republicans shout down and boo Black colleagues who speak...
(Indy Star) - Tensions flared at the Indiana Statehouse Thursday when Republican lawmakers shouted down and booed Black lawmakers...
Democratic lawmaker sues Trump for violating KKK Act over...
(Aljazeera) =- Representative Bennie Thompson is the first to sue Trump for conspiracy to disrupt the US Congress under the 1871 Ku...
State GOPs have already introduced dozens of bills restricting...
(Vox) - A new Brennan Center report shows an unprecedented amount of legislation seeking to restrict voting access has been introduced...
DHS uses federal alert system for 1st time in a year to...
(ABC News) - Using a federal system designed to warn all Americans about terrorist threats to the U.S. homeland, the Department of...
