July 31, 2015 | Updated December 12, 2015A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting — and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.
July 30, 2015Teachout talks Citizens United, public financing and her new role heading Lawrence Lessig's Mayday PAC.
July 28, 2015In the years since Olmstead and the passage of the ADA, we as a country have engaged in the difficult and revolutionary work of real inclusion.
July 24, 2015The "bill mill" is taking the fight hyperlocal with a new wing that aims to insert legislation at the city council level.
July 22, 2015Robert Kuttner writes in The American Prospect that the reforms needed to restore the country's shared prosperity are to the left of all the candidates, including Sanders.
July 21, 2015This week marks the fifth anniversary of Dodd-Frank, the complicated legislation designed to reform Wall Street after the financial crisis. Five years later, the debate still rages.
July 20, 2015Unfettered capitalism is designed to callously extract money from the most vulnerable and funnel it upward, writes Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges.
July 16, 2015In the roaring 2000s, just as in the Roaring Twenties, America’s big banks used insured deposits to underwrite their gambling in private securities, and then dumped the securities on their customers.
July 15, 2015The billy clubs and literacy tests of yesteryear have been replaced by subtler and more sophisticated attempts to control who has access to the ballot box.
July 13, 2015Reformers in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and South Dakota are considering ballot initiatives to follow in the footsteps of successes in Arizona, California and Florida.
