Category Archives: voting and voting rights

How crazy are things getting? This gripping story tells us

If my computer monitor hadn’t gone kerflooey, I’d have told you about this stunning piece of journalism last week, when the Times published it. I read every word; half the time my mouth was hanging open. I got very thirsty. … Continue reading

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Another Trump trial I forgot!

Geez, and here I was thinking I was so on top of the upcoming trials Trump will be facing one after another. But yet again, I forgot a trial. Remember the federal civil lawsuits, citing the Ku Klux Klan Act … Continue reading

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Keeping up with the Strongmen

From Harper’s Weekly Review: Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose major political rivals are dead, exiled, or incarcerated, won reelection in a contest that one protester called “a farce” and one human rights campaigner called “an insult to elections.”

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