Will 2020 Battle State Voters Help Reverse GOP Gerrymandering?
BY Steven Rosenfeld | October 26, 2020 | Fight to Vote
“If that defeat is to come, down-ballot races in 2020 are going to play an outsized role.” Read More
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The Changing Courts
BY BillMoyers.com Staff | October 26, 2020 | Moyers on Democracy
Moyers on Democracy takes a look at a new generation of judges. Read More
Unsanitized: Paying Restaurants to Close Is a Public Health Imperative
BY David Dayen | October 26, 2020 | Pandemic Timeline
If you close just bars and restaurants you’ve gone a surprisingly long way to eliminating spread, and minimizing the events that allow the virus to run rampant. Read More
Playing to the Base
BY Heather Cox Richardson | October 26, 2020 | Letters From an American
Trump and members of his administration are pretending the coronavirus pandemic is ending. Read More
Quietly Signed Trump Order Denounced as 'Declaration of War' Against Federal Employees
BY Julia Conley | October 26, 2020 | Economy & Work
The order sets up Trump's "cronies to burrow into permanent jobs in the US government," said one critic. Read More
Countdown
BY Heather Cox Richardson | October 24, 2020 | Letters From an American
This version of our government is not popular. Republican senators who will vote for Barrett represent 14.3 million fewer Americans than the Democratic senators who oppose her confirmation. Schumer today warned his Republican colleagues: “The majority has trampled over norms, rules, standards, honor, values, any of them that could possibly stand in its monomaniacal pursuit to put someone on the court who will take away the rights of so many Americans.” Read More
America’s Dangerous Doctor
BY Steven Harper | October 23, 2020 | Pandemic Timeline
Dr. Scott Atlas is a radiologist and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has no expertise in infectious diseases, epidemiology or public health. But Dr. Atlas does say the things that Trump wants to hear. So now he is a leading voice on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Read More
Helping Putin to Vote? Russian Hackers Are Back Again
BY Heather Cox Richardson | October 23, 2020 | Letters From an American
Intelligence officials warned today that Russia recently hacked into our local and state computer networks. This could compromise our voting infrastructure. Intelligence officials believe our adversaries will try to help Trump, possibly by casting doubt on the voting results. Read More
Unsanitized: The Road We're Headed Down
BY David Dayen | October 22, 2020 | Moyers on Democracy
The CARES Act delayed a reckoning that those economically affected by the pandemic should never have had to face. But that reckoning is finally here. Read More
Scramble at the White House
BY Heather Cox Richardson | October 22, 2020 | Letters From an American
Democratic candidate Joe Biden is trying to get elected, but in such a storm of crazy that his actual policies are simply not getting much airtime. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is pushing through every agenda item it can. Read More
‘Look for Power in the Shadows’: Watch Sheldon Whitehouse Shine Light on ‘Dark Money Operation’ Behind GOP Supreme Court Takeover
BY Jake Johnson | October 22, 2020 | Money & Politics
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse used his 30 minutes of allotted time during Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing not to ask questions of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett—who repeatedly dodged the straightforward questions of other lawmakers—but to deliver a detailed presentation on the sprawling "dark money operation" fueling the right-wing takeover of the U.S. judicial system. Read More
