AvatarkscoxThis is the difference between equity and equalityverified_publisherFast Company - By Porter BraswellEquity is absolutely not the same as equality, but they play for the same team. Equitable solutions require us to understand history, context, and cultural relativism. Sometimes, it’s just so much easier to explain something with a picture. This is the most commonly used graphic in the world of …
AvatarkscoxSenators unveil bipartisan legislation to reform counting of electorsAxios - Sophia Cai, Andrew SolenderA bipartisan group of 16 senators introduced legislation on Wednesday to reform and modernize the Electoral Count Act of 1887, including by …
AvatarkscoxDocuments detail the secret strategy behind Trump's census citizenship question pushverified_publisherNPR - Hansi Lo WangFormer President Donald Trump's administration spent years trying to add a census citizenship question as part of a secret strategy for altering the population numbers used to divide up seats in Congress and the Electoral College, internal documents released Wednesday by the House Oversight and …
AvatarkscoxFirst Amendment advocates respond to a new Arizona law limiting recording of policeverified_publisherNPR - Austin CopeFirst Amendment advocates are considering their options in response to an Arizona law signed last week making it a crime to record video police officers from closer than 8 feet away. The law, which was signed on Wednesday by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, states that people can be charged with a …
AvatarkscoxThe rise of reactionaries in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic in Washingtoncolumbian.com - Knute Berger, Crosscut.comThe end of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the early 1920s ushered in a rough, reactionary period in America. People were frustrated by war, …
AvatarkscoxI'm a 17-year-old high school student who can't vote. Here's why I built a system to track Congress' troubling stock trades.verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Opinion by George McCainOn one of the COVID-19 pandemic's earliest days, a Forbes article slid across my computer screen. The headline: "Senators Accused Of Insider Trading, Dumping Stocks After Coronavirus Briefing." It told a story of how Republican Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia …