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Will Barriers to Black Voting Tip the Critical Battleground State of North Carolina?

Chris Kromm Facing South
One of the biggest reasons is likely the decision of 17 counties to adopt early voting plans, approved by the Republican-led state election board, that reduced early voting hours and locations, especially in the first week of early voting. Looking at the first week of early voting data, the research group Insightus noted the correlation of counties with reduced early voting options and lower African-American turnout.

Daylight Saving Time Ends Sunday. It Ought to Go on Forever.

Brian Resnick Vox
But the one-time benefit of a little extra sleep does not make up for the fact that there will be much less light in the evening hours. People who work 9 to 5 will, in a few weeks’ time, leave their offices in total darkness.

What Pennsylvania's Faculty Strike Means for the Future of Labor

Neil Cosgrove The New People
As labor battles are traditionally viewed, making concessions on salary and benefits would have to be considered a defeat. But the faculty union regards the result of the strike as a clear-cut victory, a victory that preserved what many regard as one of the best university faculty contracts in the country.

The Truth About Venezuela's Opposition

Lucas Koerner Jacobin
Yet strangely missing from the narrative of the Venezuelan opposition’s peaceful march to victory over a cruel dictatorship was the small detail of the murder of a Venezuelan police officer by demonstrators Wednesday evening.

How We Win

William Taylor Jr. portside.org
San Francisco poet William Taylor Jr. writes in the spirit of Beat poetry, finding sly ways of survival and triumph in an often dreary, hostile world.

#StandingRock Is One More Story of Injustice

Mark Trahant trahantreports.com
If the United States lived up to its own ideals there would be no stolen water, land, and dams on the Missouri River and the Army Corps of Engineers would have a long history of real negotiation with the tribes instead of a pretend consultation.