Subterms
As Kentucky voters wait to see which Democrat will challenge Mitch McConnell this fall, Americans are quickly realizing there’s a new normal for elections during the pandemic: we’re not going to know the winner on election night. Over the last few months, states across the US have seen record numbers of their voters cast their […] More
The justice department, led by William Barr, has been quiet when it comes to protecting the right to vote, former department lawyers say Amid concern that the attorney general, William Barr, is using the department to advance Trump’s political interests, observers say the department is failing to protect the voting rights of minority groups. Photograph: […] More
Donald Trump will not go gentle into that good night: he will rage, rage, rage-tweet against the dying of his might. Indeed, he is already doing so. After a humiliating turnout at Saturday’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma – which capped one of the worst weeks of his presidency – Trump’s re-election chances look shakier by […] More
Voting in the New York primary is by no means futile for Sanders supporters Voters need to understand that Sanders’ delegate candidates aren’t running against Biden’s delegate candidates – they’re running against each other ‘Biden has already won more than the 1,991 delegates needed nationwide to secure the nomination. But delegates also set the party’s […] More
Twenty years after the disputed election, cyberhacking, disinformation and coronavirus are new threats – and some experts fear the president will sow doubt Ron Wyden: ‘We already know that Donald Trump is going to say the election has been stolen from him, no matter what.’ Photograph: REX/Shutterstock Ron Klein survived the trench warfare of one […] More
Just after midnight on Monday 1 June David McAtee was working at his barbecue restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, when he was shot and killed by the national guard, who had been assisting police during the city’s dusk-to-dawn curfew. According to a video analysis by the New York Times, the fatal outcome was the result of […] More
The Skywalker window: what Democrats must do to destroy Trump’s Death Star Obama speechwriter David Litt’s new book is a guide to what is wrong with US democracy – and how it might be fixed Donald Trump holds a rally at the North Charleston Coliseum in South Carolina in February. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty […] More
Jailed. Beaten. Yet 1960s activist Fannie Lou Hamer stood up to white supremacy – comic As people across the US protest, many are looking back at civil rights activists like Hamer, who resisted brutal violence and imprisonment for years, for inspiration As hundreds of thousands of people continue to protest against police brutality against black […] More
