By Nathan Boucher, DrPH On February 3rd of this year, Raleigh City Council voted to disband the city’s 18 longstanding Citizen Advisory Councils (CAC), eroding public trust in government. This has now been compounded by…
By Ashley Spencer For many years Michigan was divided evenly along party lines – a checkerboard of red and blue every election. Then, in 2011, Michigan’s Republican party legally rigged the system. Charged with drawing…
The richest sectors of modern capitalism avoid or replace taxes levied on them with interest-bearing loans to the same government. Read the story at Common Dreams.
Corporate Democrats and investor class liberals will fight to preserve the current order. Read the article at Common Dreams.
Merely pass by a protest, tweet about it, and you could end up in a police database. by Michael Schwalbe In the fall of 2017, students protesting the presence of the Silent Sam statue on…
This landmark campaign finance legislation bans corporations like Amazon and Bank of America from infiltrating the city’s electoral process. Read more at Common Dreams.
A look at his record offers a troubling picture. Read the article at Common Dreams.
In the last U.S. presidential election in 2016, 6.1 million Americans could not vote because of laws that disenfranchise people with past felony convictions. Read about it Facing South.
Proposed change could end disability benefits for hundreds of thousands – read the article at Common Dreams.
This story on cellphone tracking is the most important article you should read now, period. Read more at Common Dreams.