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As the Voting Rights Act Nears 60, Conservative Judges Are …
WEBAug 6, 2024 · “Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield,” President Lyndon Johnson declared 59 years ago today, as he signed the Voting Rights Act into ...
These Racist Collectibles Will Make Your Skin Crawl
WEBA ceramic figure from the 1950s Courtesy of David Pilgrim/PM Press. Pilgrim writes that historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. found this the most disturbing image in the Jim Crow Museum of Racist ...
The secret history of why soda companies switched from sugar to …
WEBJul 26, 2019 · A decade later, HFCS was still riding high and Archer Daniels Midland remained the “driving force behind the sugar lobby in this year’s battle over the future of the sugar program,” Bovard ...
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The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would …
WEBOn the afternoon of February 1, 2016, as Iowa voters prepared for that evening’s caucuses, Bandy Lee sat by the bedside of her mother, who was terminally ill with cancer. An assistant professor ...
What to know about Donald Trump's new $60 Bible - Mother Jones
WEBMar 27, 2024 · Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. One month after releasing a line of gilded high-tops for $399, Donald Trump revealed on ...
TIMELINE: Deinstitutionalization And Its Consequences
WEBApr 29, 2013 · In the aftermath of the Great Recession, states are forced to cut $4.35 billion in public mental-health spending over the next three years, the largest reduction in funding since ...
Trump backers are talking up possible civil war - Mother Jones
WEBJul 26, 2024 · Last week, at J.D. Vance’s first rally as the GOP’s vice presidential nominee, Ohio state Sen. George Lang said that civil war would be necessary if former President Donald Trump does not win ...
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the …
WEBIn an analysis of Trump’s 2016 victory, political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck reached an identical conclusion: “He capitalized on an existing reservoir of ...