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Left Out of Obama's Commission on Elections? Race

Brentin Mock Demos
The North Carolina state conference of the NAACP recently amended their voting rights complaint against the state arguing that the elimination of pre-registration would affect black and brown teens harder than their white peers because they otherwise have less opportunities to register to vote.

Poverty and Inequality, in Charts

Jared Bernstein New York Times
Not only are we now faced with slower growth, but that lesser growth rate is much more narrowly distributed.

Alive Inside: How the Magic of Music Proves Therapeutic for Patients with Alzheimer’s and Dementia

Amy Goodman Democracy Now
With advanced dementia, when people no longer can recognize their own family members, they stop speaking. But when they hear music that’s familiar from their youth, because those memories are preserved, they come alive. They connect with that. It’s a direct sort of a backdoor to that failing cognitive system right to the emotional system, which is really very much intact.

Israel's Captains of Industry Fear Boycott

Telem Yahav YNet
Leaders from Israel's tech and banking industries will fly to Davos economic forum to support Kerry's peace effort, urge Israel and Palestinians to reach deal to save Israel's economy from looming boycott

The LGBT Movement Takes Aim at Sochi

Dave Zirin The Nation
Athletes are going into the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics knowing that protesting homophobia may entail a sacrifice. It’s a stunning comment on our times that so many seem not only willing but eager to make it.

JPMorgan Chase Confirms That Crime DOES Pay

Richard Eskow Campaign for America's Future
We’ve always been told that “crime doesn’t pay.” Jamie Dimon and the Board of Directors of JPMorgan Chase beg to differ.