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State-sponsored infringement on the right to vote is not a new phenomenon in Florida. Indeed, Florida’s history of voting rights violations led Congress to require that five Florida counties seek pre-clearance by the U.S. Department of Justice or the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

President Obama made a strong stab at outlining a progressive narrative last night that envisions a nation where "everybody plays by the same rules." It's a pretty simple idea, tapping the powerful American ideal of egalitarianism -- that all of us should get a "fair shot" and that nobody is too

All presidential candidates jettison long-held beliefs in exchange for political gain. One need look only as far back as the last election, when Barack Obama professed opposition to gay marriage, despite being on record as a proponent as early as 1996, and John McCain came out against the DREAM Act

Over the last year, the American public has been inundated with conservative austerity arguments. Medicaid and Medicare needed to be reined in (or handed over to the states entirely, according Paul Ryan), unemployment insurance was, at times, too costly a burden for the nation, and even heating oil

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A comfortable formula has emerged in the past decade for dealing with corporate crime, and it goes like this: Government authorities amass evidence of wrongdoing, confront malefactors with this evidence, and then the two sides agree to a "settlement" to resolve the charges.

I wrote last week about how we can shift our tax model to taxing things that are harmful, like pollution, and away from taxing things that are productive, like work and wealth creation. But, there has been little discussion in the mainstream on this issue, even though tax reform is almost certainly

Citizens United, the misbegotten Supreme Court case granting corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections, has entered its terrible twos.