Minneapolis is brimming with emotion. But perhaps love — for George Floyd and his family, for small businesses, and for the community — will win out in the end.
The United States of America is falling apart. With even greater challenges on the horizon, ones sure to continue to pull at the fabric of our society, my hope is that we can find it within ourselves to move forward with compassion.
Federalism has its merits and drawbacks, but if it is to operate effectively in the face of the coronavirus epidemic, we must renew our commitment to social solidarity and cooperation across state and regional identities.
We owe it to Floyd to memorialize his life even as we demand justice for his death. And we owe it to George Floyd to do better by countless other Black Americans precisely where we failed him.
In Georgia, two concurrent Senate races for Republican-held seats in the emerging battleground have the potential to flip the Senate for Democrats — or build a firewall for Republicans.
Democratic chances in Georgia have strengthened every week for the past two months, and with eight major candidates, two seats, and the potential for four elections, the Peach State’s Senate seats are approaching a jump-ball status for 2020.
The ongoing coronavirus outbreak has laid bare the backstage of the longest-running spectacle in the United States: the neoliberal horror picture show.
If we are to protect Americans’ right to vote during these hard times — their right to have a say in who leads the country as we emerge from this crisis — we must expand vote-by-mail.
Vote-by-mail systems, in their current forms, prevent the same level of voter validation as in-person voting, and therefore compromise our election security.
