Southern Politics
April 29, 2009 -
Talk about saving the biggest for last: Today, the last day of the Supreme Court term, they will hear one of the most important cases in years: the fate of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark piece of civil rights legislation pa
April 23, 2009 -
If you missed, Tom Frank had a provocative column in the Wall Street Journal yesterday about the likely demise of the Employee Free Choice Act -- the bill that labor has made its #1 priority for the new era of Obama and Democratic politics.
April 23, 2009 -
By Nathan Newman, Progressive States Network
April 22, 2009 -
With the 2010 Census count looming, states are launching their efforts to make sure everyone gets counted in the decennial survey of the U.S. population. But with threadbare budgets and fast-changing demographics, many states face huge obstacles to making the Census successful.