On Monday I cast my ballot as a presidential elector. With a minimum of pageantry, fourteen staunch Democrats gathered in New Jersey's eighteenth-century State House to perform the ministerial function of ratifying the people's choice of Barack Obama as president, in conformity with the provisions of our eighteenth-century federal constitution.
TCF's Amy Dean reports on California's Proposition 32, which would restrict political contributions by unions while leaving plenty of loopholes for corporations.
Who will be able to vote and have their votes count in November’s election? When a panel of journalists, policymakers, and civil rights advocates convenes for a public forum at The Century Foundation on Wednesday, September 12.
A new book, The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans’ Right to Vote, by Tova Andrea Wang on the history of voter suppression in the United States.
