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5 Groundbreaking Bills to Protect Child Wellbeing in the US
Every parent wants a healthy child, right? Too often, though, people neglect to consider just how much the events of childhood can leave a lasting impact on a child.For example, we have only very rece...
With Straight Face, Penn. Politician Says Legislators Are "Most Accountable" to Redraw Electoral Districts
A bill in the Pennsylvania House to create an independent citizens' redistricting commission was rewritten to give the legislature even more control over the legislative redistricting process.Don't wo...
A History Lesson from Dr. King for Reformers
The consequences of party-dominated elections; of closed party primaries, gerrymandered districts, and major party control of the ballot, of the media and of the debates, in addition to the partisan d...
Supreme Court Rules in PA Gerrymandering Case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRqyYokJ97cVideo Source: CBS NewsThe Supreme Court turned down a request by Republican state lawmakers Monday to prevent Pennsylvania’s new congressional map from being...
OPINION: American Democracy Is Dead!
Americans have to admit that our democracy -- the great experiment -- is dead. Our government does not look or function as our Founding Fathers intended. In fact, it has failed in the fundamental pu...
Election Reformers: Let History Guide You. Lessons of How Slavery Formed our Two Political Parties
For me, history, the study of it and the making of it, has been an essential part of life.Growing up in the underground of the poor black community, reading became my salvation, and reading ...
PA’s Gerrymandering Case: What’s Going On and What’s Next?
Gerrymandering might be the issue of our time.You know that sinking feeling you get after every single election where you just can’t understand how one party won so many seats? Gerrymandering is ...
Black Voting Rights Leader: BOTH Parties Guilty of Voter Suppression
I am a physician and a black woman who grew up poor and came of age in the 1970’s. I‘ve spent 25 years practicing medicine, mainly in Harlem, and I care deeply about the state of our country, about th...
Pressure Builds for Pennsylvania Politicians to Fix Their Gerrymandered Maps
The US Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania legislature to overrule a decision by the state Supreme Court to strike down the state's congressional map on...
3 News Stories With More Impact Than Texts Between Lovers
Read about what really matters from the news last week. We provide you the least-biased news about current events so you can go about your day informed, not brainwashed.What to avoid: The texts were ...