Kwasi Konadu, Clifford C. Campbell
The Conversation
Given the political realities and economic imperatives at play, free prison labor will persist in America for the foreseeable future, leaving in serious doubt the idea of American freedom – and abundant evidence of modern-day convict slavery.
The challenge to Representative Madison Cawthorn’s re-election bid could set a precedent to challenge other Republicans who encouraged the Jan. 6 attack.
The Vice President has constitutional rights, too. By a quirk of history, the plot against America is now also a plot against a Black woman’s right to vote.
Nearly 100 years ago, Congress passed a law making it a felony to reenter the US after being deported. Now a judge has found it too racist to be allowed.
We need to a new “people’s” military as a force that could truly defend the American republic, focused above all on supporting the Constitution, freedom of speech, the press, and assembly, the right to privacy and due process, justice for all.
A lot of questions remain about Congress' path forward to repeal military authorizations that empowered presidents to put boots on the ground and conduct airstrikes. Here's what we know.
Every Democrat in Congress voted against the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, which aimed to guarantee equal protection of the law and voting rights for freed slaves. The Lincoln-era Republican Party passed them anyhow.
America’s first peaceful transfer of power was far more fraught than is generally understood today and casts cast an eerie light on the not entirely peaceful transfer of presidential power in 2020-21.
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