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A federal appeals court today struck down the entirety of North Carolina’s voter suppression law in a sweeping victory for voting rights. The ruling blocks voter ID and restores preregistration, a week of early voting, same-day registration, and out-of-precinct provisional voting. The ruling is a stinging rebuke of the North Carolina legislature’s attempt to undermine Afri

Imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning received a document from Army officials informing her that she is being investigated for serious new charges related to her July 5th attempt to take her own life. If convicted of these “administrative offenses,” she could be placed in indefinite solitary confinement for

Is the push to make America’s workplaces more hospitable to parents and pregnant workers the last bipartisan issue? Listening to the rhetoric issued in speeches at the Republican National Convention and from what we’ve heard so far at its Democratic counterpart, one might think so. The

For the first-time ever, the platform of a major political party includes an explicit call to repeal the Hyde Amendment, a federal law that has denied eligible poor and low-income women coverage for abortion care for nearly four decades.  This has anti-abortion democrats saying they have been betrayed. Make no mistake: the real betrayal came, 40 years ago when politicians hijacked the Medicaid bill – a law designed to

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This piece originally appeared at The Guardian. Something is missing from the debate over police reform. Though police killings of Black men have sparked a nation

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I spent last week in Guantánamo Bay, where I was supposed to be observing four days of pre-trial hearings in the military commission prosecution of the 9/11 defendants. But as is so often the case, on three of those days, the hearings were closed. On the single day of open hearings, the proceeding focused on the government’s destruction of key evidence in the case. This past weekend, defense lawyers confirmed that the evidence concerns a secret CIA black site abroad where the defendants and others were severely tortured. Almost 15 years have passed since the attacks of 9/11, and yet the Guantánamo military commissions are still muddling thr