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From Internet Rights to Streeteries, How the Pandemic is Changing Working From Home
Coronavirus has reshaped how Californians live, learn and work in uneven ways. The pandemic has exposed the state’s long-standing digital divide with a significant share of low-income and rural househ ...
10 Aug, 2020
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Iowa Is Officially No Longer The Only State with a Lifetime Ban On Felons Voting
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Iowa's governor decreed Wednesday that most felons in the state ...
06 Aug, 2020
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These 24 States Have Already Made Voting Easier in 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.With fewer than a hundred days to the presidential election, almost h ...
03 Aug, 2020
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New Report Warns Campaign Finance Loophole Invites Foreign Interference in Elections
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Businesses that finance super PACs could be exploited by foreign ...
30 Jul, 2020
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OPINION: We Don't Need Another Political Party
In the wake of Bernie Sanders’ loss of the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, the Left has cried out, as it has in the past, for the creation of a third party. There is some merit to this id ...
20 Jul, 2020
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Voting Rights Advocates Dealt 3 Major Blows after Historic Victories
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.After a string of recent successes, advocates for improving the fairn ...
29 Jun, 2020
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Will John Roberts Save Democracy?
Lawrence Goldstone is the author of numerous books and articles on Constitutional Law, most recently “On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Votin ...
29 Jun, 2020
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Justice Requires Us to Act!
This is a horrific time for our country and a time of deep reflection for me. As a child of the 60’s, it is almost incomprehensible to fathom that we are experiencing a moment that is eerily simi ...
27 Jun, 2020
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Straight-Ticket Voting Won't Return to Texas in 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum, and was republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.Straight-ticket voting won't be returning to Texas now that a federal ...
25 Jun, 2020
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Racism and Closed Primaries: A History Intertwined
That voter suppression is antithetical to democracy seems axiomatic, particularly if democracy is defined as rule by the majority. It is also, however, perhaps the most effective means for a minority ...
19 Jun, 2020
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