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Migration

Noncitizen Voting and the Politics of Common Sense in New York City

Can proposals to expand local voting to noncitizens survive in the era of Stop the Steal?

October 28, 2024 • by Vasiliki Malouchou Kanellopoulou and Connor Smith

Even as Republican politicians continue to undermine faith in the U.S. electoral system by erroneously claiming the 2024 election will be “stolen” by undocumented immigrants, the New York Court of Appeals is quietly considering a law that would expand the right to vote in local elections to certain residents of ...

Noncitizen Voting and the Politics of Common Sense in New York City

Activism

The 2021 Voting Rights March, a Photo Essay

August 28 has become an anniversary to celebrate the accomplishments of African-Americans and to demand more rights

September 1, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

_____ August 28 has become an anniversary to celebrate the accomplishments of African-Americans and to demand more rights. The first one in 1963 was a March for Jobs and Freedom. The latest was a demand for a federal bill to stop state voter suppression laws. The first one brought 250,000 people ...

The 2021 Voting Rights March, a Photo Essay

Columnists

Why Voting Rights Are Still Necessary Trouble

Just a year after Representative Lewis’s death, the rights for which he fought are under greater threat than they have been since 1965

July 21, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

_____ A year ago last week, Georgia Representative John Lewis passed away from pancreatic cancer at 80 years old. As a young adult, Lewis was a “troublemaker,” breaking the laws of his state: the laws upholding racial segregation. He organized voting registration drives and in 1960 was one of the thirteen ...

Why Voting Rights Are Still Necessary Trouble

Columnists

Not One Senate Republican Is For the People

The right to vote is under assault as the GOP defends a government by white men, for white men

June 23, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

_____ There were three important takeaways from this week’s Senate vote on whether to begin debate on S1, the For the People Act, the bill that would protect voting rights, end partisan gerrymandering, establish new ethics rules for federal officials, and curb big money in politics. The first is that Senator Joe ...

Not One Senate Republican Is For the People

Politics

Punish the Voting Rights Villains

The second section of the 14th amendment was written to exact penalties for voting rights violations—why don’t we use it?

May 26, 2021 • by Marc Stein

_____ In April, pundits feasted on the U.S. Census Bureau’s announcement of state population figures for 2020 and the resulting reapportionment of seats in the House of Representatives prior to the 2022 elections. The winners? Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Colorado, Oregon, and Montana. The losers? California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, ...

History

New York, From a Balloon

A map captured the evolution of New York City but missed one thing, the people

April 28, 2021 • by David T. Z. Mindich

_____ In its May 6, 1871 issue—150 years ago next week—Harper’s Weekly published an extraordinary bird’s-eye view of New York, which was quickly becoming one of the world’s greatest cities. “Eighteen Miles Around New York” is a snapshot of a city still under construction, one that had been transformed well within the lifetime of ...

Voting Rights

Noncitizen Voting and the Politics of Common Sense in New York City

Can proposals to expand local voting to noncitizens survive in the era of Stop the Steal?

The 2021 Voting Rights March, a Photo Essay

August 28 has become an anniversary to celebrate the accomplishments of African-Americans and to demand more rights

Why Voting Rights Are Still Necessary Trouble

Just a year after Representative Lewis’s death, the rights for which he fought are under greater threat than they have been since 1965

Not One Senate Republican Is For the People

The right to vote is under assault as the GOP defends a government by white men, for white men

Punish the Voting Rights Villains

The second section of the 14th amendment was written to exact penalties for voting rights violations—why don’t we use it?

New York, From a Balloon

A map captured the evolution of New York City but missed one thing, the people

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