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2016: Protest Vote or Cry For Help?

Posted March 3, 2016 • 00:49:53

Act One of the freaked-out 2016 campaign for president may be drawing to a close, with Clinton and Trump continually atop polls. So what have we learned? Trump...

Race and the Race for the White House

Posted February 25, 2016 • 00:49:51

Is racial justice on the ballot in 2016? In the past year, Charleston, South Carolina, grieved twice. First, Walter Scott was shot in the back by a...

Hacking The Constitution

Posted February 18, 2016 • 00:49:58

The late justice Antonin Scalia boasted that his United States Constitution was definitively “dead.” But in a mixed-up political season, what if...

Democracy’s Dark Side

Posted February 12, 2016 • 00:49:56

This week, the third in a series on our democracy in 2016, we’re discussing what you can’t change with a vote — at least for now. Change is the...

Sanders, Socialism, and the Youth Vote

Posted February 4, 2016 • 00:49:55

For the election watchers who were dissatisfied after the statistical stalemate in the Iowa caucuses, here’s a result worth wondering over: six to...