Politics
How the FIRST STEP Act Moves Criminal Justice Reform Forward
The FIRST STEP Act is a modest piece of legislation that tackles harsh sentencing while mostly failing to apply its reforms retroactively. ACLU NationalBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingDec 4...
There’s No Real Difference Between Border Walls and Border Fences
Democrats, led by Sen. Chuck Schumer, are playing word games when it comes to funding Trump’s border wall. By Scott NicolDECEMBER 3, 2018 | 5:45 PM...
We Should Worry More About Absentee Voting Fraud
Ed DolanBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingNov 30 After the recent midterms, allegations of election fraud involving absentee ballots surfaced in several races. Some of these, including the Georgia governor’s...
Towards A World Without Billionaires
Quinn AlbrightBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingDec 2 Across the United States, the UK, France, and many others, millions of people starting to demand a society beyond capitalism. There is...
The Government Is Trying to Keep Key NSA Spying Rules Secret
We’re telling a federal appeals court that democracy has no room for secret law on surveillance of Americans. ACLU NationalBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingDec 4 Paulina Perlin, Yale Law...
In Major Threat to Due Process, Marsy’s Law Gains Ground Nationwide
A growing movement wants to amend the US Constitution and weaken its due process protections in its ill-advised pursuit of victims’ rights. ACLU NationalBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingDec 4 By...
The Job Interview
Maria GarciaBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingDec 2 What Makes a Person Morally Qualified to be Supreme Court Judge? By Maria Garcia 36 years ago, in the summer of 1982,...
The Truth about Brexit & Xenophobia
Despite the government’s statements, it is clear now that everyone who has any knowledge or expertise about pretty well anything agrees that Brexit will make...
What I Learned About Capitalism, and Why I Hate It
American’s love to tout capitalism as a way out of no way, but most of us don’t clearly understand how capitalism works. If we did,...
50 Equal States: more democratic or more Democratic?
There are a lot of problems with the United States. For a start, the country’s government is run by a man who seems to believe...
The presidential primary system is tearing apart both parties and needs to be replaced
Tim RothBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingDec 2 The 2016 primary elections were a painful experience for a lot of Americans. The toxicity from both of these primaries helped fuel...
No, We shouldn’t Abolish Bail
James SlateBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingDec 3 Our country is having a robust debate about “criminal justice reform.” While there are many aspects of our criminal justice system that...
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