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President Donald Trump may be met with a massive protest on Washington just one day into his term.

Activists are organizing a "Women's March on Washington" for January 21, 2017, the day after Trump is inaugurated, to demonstrate their disgust with the election of a man who has been repeatedly accused of sexual harassment and assault. More than 41, ( Read more... )

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All summer long, the clock has been ticking on voting rights cases. Judges don't like to change voting rules too near an election, and November is creeping ever closer ( Read more... )

The gaping hole among Bernie holdouts and Jill Stein’s supporters tells you a lot about their movement.


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This is the first time the justices have entered this nationwide debate


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She lashed out at “lawless police conduct” that disproportionately targets black and brown Americans.


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The president and Michelle Obama, the first lady, issued a statement Saturday on the death of Muhammad Ali.Muhammad Ali was The Greatest. Period. If you just asked him, he’d tell you. He’d tell you he was the double greatest; that he’d “handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice warned North Carolina that its recently enacted anti-LGBTQ statute violates two federal laws and entreated the state not to enforce the measure. Specifically, the DOJ expressed concern about a provision of the North Carolina law that forbids trans people from using the bathroom that aligns with their ( Read more... )

Last month, in an article for The Nation on “Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote,” Michelle Alexander detailed the toxic consequences for black families and communities of President Bill Clinton’s 1994 criminalization bill and his 1996 welfare-to-workfare act-and the first lady’s vigorous lobbying for both pieces of legislation. ( Read more... )