Last week, I wrote about Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s lack of policy proposals regarding women’s rights. Over the weekend, the campaign updated its website to include several new policy initiatives. Sanders’s new plan for fighting for women’s rights is expansive, and the most detailed in the Democratic field. If elected president, Sanders would only […]
Nathalie Baptiste
Nathalie Baptiste is a writing fellow at The American Prospect. Follow @nhbaptiste
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Where’s Bernie’s Platform on Reproductive Rights?
With reproductive freedom under attack at the state and federal level, what’s Sanders’s plan?
Posted inAmerica and the World
Why Is Obama Silent on the Dominican Deportation Crisis?
Despite the unfolding humanitarian disaster, Washington remains unwilling to challenge its ally and trading partner.Â
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On Its 50th Anniversary, the Case for Restoring the Voting Rights Act
It’s been 50 years since Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, guaranteeing blacks the right to vote after decades of disenfranchisement. The landmark legislation came at a crucial time in American history; the civil rights movement was in full swing and progress was slowly being made. But in 2015, voting rights […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Can the University of Cincinnati Police Learn From the City’s Police?
The killing of Samuel Dubose by university police sparked renewed outrage in a city that has been grappling with reform for more than a decade.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Defunding Planned Parenthood Would Be the Real Betrayal of Women
In the past two weeks, three secretly recorded (and misleadingly edited) videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing fetal tissues were leaked by anti-choice activists in an attempt to make the organization appear to be participating in the illegal harvesting of body parts for profit. Pro-choice activists have dissected the videos and proved that Planned Parenthood […]
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Jobs Are Great, but They Won’t End Structural Racism
Bernie Sanders touts policies that most progressives can get behind. His emphasis on good jobs for all is indisputably important and affects all Americans: white, black, Latino, Asian, and beyond. But when black people say Bernie Sanders has a blind spot on racial issues, we don’t mean that his economic policies aren’t important or don’t […]
Posted inWorking in America
Urban Policing, Without Brutality
Cincinnati has emerged as a role model of policing reform—but even the best-in-show has a long way to go.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Three Climate Deniers in Congress Whose Districts Will Soon Be Underwater
The Republican representatives of three districts in Louisiana, Maryland, and Virginia that are vulnerable to rising sea level don’t believe 97 percent of climate scientists.
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From Civil Rights to Obama, the Confederate Flag Has Meant One Thing
Oklahoma was not a part of the old Confederacy, but that historical fact did not stop some from greeting the first black president with the Confederate flag when he arrived in Oklahoma City on Wednesday. The purpose of Obama’s trip to the small town of Durant, Oklahoma was to visit the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, […]
