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Florida's referendum approving the grant of voting rights to 1.4 million returning citizens is the single largest expansion of the franchise since passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

A female refugee in a headscarf will make it that much harder for her colleagues to ignore her experience or pretend people like her don’t exist.

They are poised to win more seats this year than they did in 2006, despite far fewer opportunities.

Firing Jeff Sessions could spark a ‘Wednesday Afternoon Massacre,’ one Democrat on the intelligence committee says

Trump Ad No-Go; Church of Trump; Youth Vote; Advancing Democracy; Confederate POTUS; Kanye's Sunken Place

Labour needs to develop a socialist strategy that goes beyond a single election manifesto. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin look at the challenge of state transformation

His supporters hark back to an 1860s fantasy of white male dominance. But the Confederacy won’t win in the long run

Trump and the GOP continue to label themselves “the party of Lincoln.” But they depart widely from Abraham Lincoln’s view and treatment of immigrants.

Without lawyers or an international union behind them, these young workers represented themselves at the National Labor Relations Board, up against high-powered “union avoidance” lawyers and university administrators—and won. Nov. election date.

California has the largest female death row in the U.S., with 23 condemned women imprisoned at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. Four women have been executed in the state since 1893.