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Archives: Voter suppression
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First, the Soviets Collapsed: Is it America’s Turn Now?
By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Jump into your time machine and let me transport you back to another age. It’s May 2001 and the Atlantic Monthly has…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/image-750x750-1-187x137.png)
Even Conservative SCOTUS can’t Stomach N Carolina Voter Suppression
by Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org | - - North Carolina's Voter ID Law Meets 'Its Much-Deserved Demise' Decision by U.S. Supreme Court not to review appeals court decision on 2013…![Sen. Elizabeth Warren silenced on Floor for Reading King Letter re: Sessions](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/sen-elizabeth-warren-silenced-on-187x137.jpg)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren silenced on Floor for Reading King Letter re: Sessions
CNN International | (Video News Report with text Appendix) In an extremely rare rebuke, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren was cut off while speaking on the Senate floor. She had been reading a…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/berbers-378x230-1-187x137.png)
Reflections by a Middle Easterner on the Electoral College as a Remnant of Elite Tribalism
By Hsain Ilahiane | (Informed Comment) | - - The Founding Fathers wrote the electoral college in the United States Constitution. In late summer 2004, I became a naturalized United States citizen…![Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/federal-judge-puts-end-to-insane-187x137.jpg)
Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina
By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - 'Injunction will help make sure not a single voters’ voice is unlawfully taken away,' says Rev. William Barber II of…![Ghosts of King George III: Top 5 Things that threaten American Independence Today](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/07/ghosts-of-king-george-iii-top-5-187x137.jpg)
Ghosts of King George III: Top 5 Things that threaten American Independence Today
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The things that irked the residents of the Thirteen Colonies about British rule have reemerged from other quarters to threaten American democracy. The…![Baltimore Protests: What The Media Isn’t Showing You](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/04/baltimore-protests-what-the-medi-187x137.jpg)
Baltimore Protests: What The Media Isn’t Showing You
AJ+ | - "Burning buildings, shattered glass, riot police: This looping portrait of Baltimore – on TV and online – has become the defining narrative of protests spurred by the death of…![African-Americans still struggle for Full Citizenship Rights, Voting Rights](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/03/african-americans-still-struggle-187x137.jpg)
African-Americans still struggle for Full Citizenship Rights, Voting Rights
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - 50 years after the Selma march to Montgomery, African-Americans still face substantial impediments to their full citizenship in the United States. We all saw the…![In New Gilded Age, Social Protest dominates Academy Awards Ceremony](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/02/in-new-gilded-age-social-protest-187x137.jpg)
In New Gilded Age, Social Protest dominates Academy Awards Ceremony
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - If social and economic inequality were a mine, and if America were deep in this mine with a canary in tow, the canary would long…![How Public Power can get Big Money out of Politics & Defeat Plutocrats](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/11/how-public-power-can-get-big-mon-187x137.jpg)
How Public Power can get Big Money out of Politics & Defeat Plutocrats
Bill Moyers | --- Bill Moyers: "How Public Power Can Defeat Plutocrats" via BillMoyers.com "Government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats with deep pockets to buy the politicians who grease…![How Secret Millionaire Donors Bought the Midterms with Dark Money Superpacs](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/11/how-secret-millionaire-donors-bo-187x137.jpg)
How Secret Millionaire Donors Bought the Midterms with Dark Money Superpacs
by Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica In the final weeks before this year's elections, a super PAC called Key Questions, Key Answers started buying TV ads across Pennsylvania attacking Tom Wolf, the Democratic candidate…![Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections (Moyers)](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/11/bernie-sanders-on-breaking-big-m-187x137.jpg)
Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money’s Grip on Elections (Moyers)
Bill Moyers: "Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s independent senator, is angry about what he sees as big money’s wholesale purchase of political power. It’s a grave threat, he believes, not only to our electoral…![GOP Voter Suppression: Comedian Louis Black says F#%! it!](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701064153im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/10/gop-voter-suppression-comedian-l-187x137.jpg)