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Who Endorsed Hillary Clinton? The Congressional Black Caucus or Its PAC Filled With Lobbyists?
This week's endorsement of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president by the Congressional Black Caucus political action committee prompted some confusion due to a lack of familiarity …
North Carolina Voting Rights Fight Moves From the Courtroom to the Streets
As the federal trial over restrictive voter ID law wrapped up, the NAACP shifted its fight.
IRS Allows Post-Citizens United Karl Rove Group to Continue Concealing Source of Donors
The Internal Revenue Service decided to grant "social welfare" tax-exempt status to Crossroads GPS.
Noam Chomsky | Notion of Elite Guardian Class Dates Back to Founding of US
Noam Chomsky discusses the historical embedding of an elite "guardian class" in US society going back to the framers of the Constitution.
Why Bernie Sanders Is Not George McGovern
Comparing the US in 2016 to the US in 1972 doesn't make a lot of sense.
Could Unelected Superdelegates Give Clinton the Nomination Even if Sanders Wins the Primaries?
Sander and Clinton split the delegates evenly thanks to unelected superdelegates siding with the former secretary of state.
How Sanders’s Grassroots Fundraising Is Defying the 2016 “Billionaire Primary”
Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign is raking in millions of individual small-dollar contributions.
Sanders and Trump Steamroll the Establishment in New Hampshire
20%+ victory for Sanders, and twice the vote totals of any other Republican for Trump will send shockwaves.
Larry Yarbrough: A Case for Clemency
Larry Yarbrough has spent more than 20 years serving a life without parole sentence for possession of a single ounce of cocaine.
Ordinary Americans Fought Big Money and Won in 2015
Groups have seized the moment by successfully using grassroots mobilization to push candidates to address money in politics.