Los Angeles is the latest city where criminal justice reformers are running against traditional law-and-order incumbents.
Elections
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Bloomberg: The ‘Democrat’ Who Treated Minorities as Inherently Criminal
If separating immigrant children from their parents at the border upsets you, Michael Bloomberg’s policies separated black and brown children from their parents all across New York.
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Los Angeles County’s Seismic Voting Shift
California unveils some of the biggest election changes in its history on Super Tuesday. After the Iowa debacle, will voters in the country’s largest voting jurisdiction pay enough attention to the new way they must vote?
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Georgia Senate Race Could Feature Shareholder Capitalism vs. Stakeholder Capitalism
How Senate candidate Sarah Riggs Amico, running against ex-CEO David Perdue in Georgia, sacrificed her family business investment to save jobs and pensions.
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When It Makes Sense to Challenge Incumbents in Primaries
Today on TAP: The DCCC shouldn’t have the last word
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Taking Back Rural America
Democrats have faltered in rural areas for many years now. A new book offers a road map to reverse the trend.
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Not a Typo: States Made 2019 a Historic Year for Election Reform
Campaigns to democratize the ballot box saw significant victories.
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Bailing From Royalty, and Our Own Anachronistic Rule
Today on TAP: It’s high time we ditched America’s undemocratic institutions
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First-Past-the-Post Won the British Election. Here’s How Progressives Can Defeat It.
U.S. and U.K. electoral systems allow evenly spread minorities to beat majorities concentrated geographically. But there are options to counteract that.
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Corbyn’s Defeat Is a Warning Sign to the Left Everywhere
The U.K. Labour candidate’s stand against economic inequality was not enough to overcome Boris Johnson’s populist appeal.