No Photo ID Needed For Buying Elections
Posted on April 21, 2014 in Political Cartoons
Meet The Republican Who Thinks His Party Has Failed on Women’s Issues
Posted on April 21, 2014 in Articles
The Article: Meet the Republican Who Thinks His Party Has Failed on Women’s Issues by Elisabeth Garber-Paul in Rolling Stone.
The Text: As red states continue to rack up laws that restrict access to abortion, basic contraception and preventive care, it can seem that Republicans have put the needs of women second to toeing the Tea Party line. Oklahoma, for example, has continuously pushed through such legislation. But there’s a surprising voice in that state: Republican State Representative Doug Cox, an MD who has continued to practice during his 10 years in office. “This bill is prejudiced,” Cox said earlier this month, during a committee hearing for a bill that would make it harder for women under 17 to get the morning after pill. “It’s prejudiced against women. A 14-year-old boy can go to the truck stop and buy all the condoms he wants. He can control his destiny. This bill takes the ability to control their destiny away from women. But that’s what we do in the Republican Party these days.”
Rolling Stone spoke with Rep. Cox from his office in Oklahoma City.
What do you think of the current Republican Party’s approach to women’s reproductive rights?
The Resegregation Of American Schools
Posted on April 20, 2014 in Videos
From the video: ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her year-long investigation into how one of desegregation’s success stories in Tuscaloosa, Alabama became one of the most segregated school systems in the country, as well as the high levels of segregation in northern schools 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education.
Why Americans Should Be In A Rage
Posted on April 20, 2014 in Articles
The Article: We Should Be in a Rage by Charles M. Blow in The New York Times.
The Text: Voter apathy is a civic abdication. There is no other way to describe it.
If more Americans — particularly young people and less-wealthy people — went to the polls, we would have a better functioning government that actually reflected the will of the citizenry.
But, that’s not the way it works. Voting in general skews older and wealthier, and in midterm elections that skew is even more severe.
As David Wasserman wrote on the Cook Report last year:
“Voters under the age of 30 were 19 percent of all voters in 2012, but just 12 percent of all voters in 2010. Likewise, voters 65 and up were 17 percent of all voters in 2012, but 21 percent of all voters in 2010. Herein lies the biggest danger for Democratic candidates in 2014.”
