What we learned from the Arizona, Florida, and Illinois elections about how to hold electoral contests during the coronavirus outbreak
Florida
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Florida 2000 Created Our Modern Dysfunction
It’s when the GOP learned that winning washes away all your sins.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rick Scott’s Double-Speak on Immigration
The Republicans’ Florida senatorial nominee has one message in his Spanish-language ads and another in his English-language ones.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Florida Wrestles with Election Cybersecurity
This purple state remains a plum target for hackers foreign and domestic, and its history of suppressive voting measures complicates efforts at reform.
Posted inEducation in America
At CPAC, Florida Massacre Hangs Over Betsy DeVos
The secretary of education offers prayers and thoughts on her signature issues, but little on the current pressing issues for students and educators: guns and school safety.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Arizona, Florida, and Georgia Democratic Gubernatorial Hopefuls Make Their Pitches
Three progressives of color tout authenticity and voter turnout at a candidate forum in the nation’s capital.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Who Was Marjory Stoneman Douglas?
The namesake of the high school where 17 people were killed was a remarkable progressive activist—much like the students now demanding real gun control.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Poverty on Disney’s Doorstep
TAP Goes to the Oscars: The Florida Project is a film about life as a poor kid. It doesn’t erase the innocence of childhood—or the harshness of poverty.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Tea Partiers and Progressives Unite Against ‘Deceptive’ Florida Ballot Initiative
A bipartisan “green tea” group is fighting for solar in Florida.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
That Sinking Feeling: The Politics of Sea Level Rise and Miami’s Building Boom
Why is Miami—America’s most vulnerable metropolis to sea-level rise—having yet another beachfront development boom?
