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President Donald Trump is apparently angry about voter suppression. In a tweet on Monday morning, the president wrote, “So funny to see the CNN Fake Suppression Polls and false rhetoric. Watch for real results Tuesday. We are lucky CNN’s ratings…
The wave of women running for office in 2018 is likely to continue cresting in 2020 — and a new poll suggests that could be bad news for President Donald Trump. A new poll from Axios by SurveyMonkey found that…
Pundits love to throw around the term “identity politics.” It’s usually used to diminish the importance or legitimacy of political demands made by historically marginalized groups that turn on experiences specific to that group. Under this definition, African-American voters demanding…
The musical “Oklahoma!” was based, pretty much verbatim, on a play from 1930, “Green Grow the Lilacs,” by Lynn Riggs. The play’s opening in New York, at the Theatre Guild, was revved up by a group of cowboys that had…
Back in 1992, I published a piece about voting at the Y on Lexington Avenue. “At the Y, nothing has changed,” I wrote: Around the room, the machines’ shabby curtains snap open and bang shut; the vestal poll-watchers bend low…
A side-by-side look at some of the political protests that have shaped American politics over the past hundred years. I went to my first protest at the age of eighteen. I joined a group of around forty-five people on a…
