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Posted inBusiness, Commentary, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Story, Uncategorized

What Should Universal Basic Income Look Like?

by Livia Gershon September 26, 2019January 27, 2023

Andrew Yang made it news, but we need a better plan.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes

Is Conservative Life Behind the ‘Orange Curtain’ at an End?

by mlegro May 11, 2018October 19, 2022

Democrats can flip Orange County, California, from red to blue, as long as they don’t mess it up.

Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Unapologetic Women

Could Paulette Jordan of Idaho Become the Country’s First Native American Governor?

by Danielle Jackson April 30, 2018October 19, 2022

In Idaho, former state representative Paulette Jordan faces a tough race to become the nation’s first Native American governor.

Posted inCurrent Events

To Win in Georgia, Ignore the Data and Follow the Signs

by mlegro June 20, 2017October 19, 2022

The race in Georgia’s 6th District has been blessed with the DNC’s millions, but only takes some of its advice.

Posted inBlog Post, Current Events, Quotes

If You Think You Understand the Montana Special Election, You Probably Don’t

by mlegro May 25, 2017October 19, 2022

At Buzzfeed, Anne Helen Petersen has been reporting for months on the complex needs of state’s independent voter.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

An Uncomfortable Truth

by michelleweber November 2, 2016October 19, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones explores the rhetoric of Donald Trumps’s appeals to black voters and calls on the Democratic Party to stop taking Black support for granted.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

The Ever-Shifting Definition of ‘Progressive’

by juliawick January 19, 2016October 19, 2022

Who gets to be a “progressive”?

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

The Quest for Native American Voting Rights

by Sam Stecklow June 25, 2014October 19, 2022

What would Martin Luther King do? “About Native voting? He sure as hell wouldn’t dither about technicalities,” says Four Directions consultant Healy, a former head of the South Dakota Democratic Party. “Read Dr. King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ on the subject of waiting for rights.” In the 1963 letter, King decries the man “who paternalistically […]

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