Brazil’s presidential election is on a knife-edge. Right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro has powerful interests on his side but is also counting on the Trump administration’s help to push him over the line.
Democracy and data centers
The Minnesota movement still holds important lessons for those working to defend democracy in the Trump era.
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On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J. Michael Luttig published a dire warning to the Republican Party…and to all Americans. Luttig outlined how Republicans could refuse to seat elected Democrats after a Democratic victory.
Any post-MAGA renewal of democracy starts with a federal right to vote. But it hardly ends there.
In a blistering dissent, Jackson warned that the Court’s emergency ruling lets the Trump administration continue pursuing changes to state-run mail voting systems even though “no judge or Justice” has concluded that Trump’s order is constitutional.
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The 25th Knesset has now dissolved, bringing an end one of the most consequential and destructive political periods in Israel's history. As Israel heads toward elections, what has changed both in law and political culture? What can be reversed?
More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emmett Till Lived.”
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