A New Voting System Promises Reliable Paper Records. Security Experts Warn It Can’t Be Trusted.
TNS via Zuma As states and local voting jurisdictions around the country work to upgrade voting systems in the wake of the 2016 Russian election interference operations, most election security experts have urged the adoption of paper ballots. While voting on paper might call to mind wielding a pencil or pen to fill a bubble,…
For Black Americans, It’s Not a Housing Crisis. It’s a Chronic Condition.
Donte Bruce holds the US flag during a 2000 march in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles to demand fair housing for low-income communities.Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Redlining is widely seen as the source of the vast disparities in housing and homeownership between white and Black Americans. Denied access to government-backed mortgages,…
Should Judges Have to Weigh the Price Tag of Sending Someone to Prison?
AndreyPopov/iStock/Getty There’s one trial that Buta Biberaj will never forget. Biberaj, a former defense attorney, remembers how Virginia jurors in 2017 requested 132 years of prison for a man who stole car tires. The jurors may have been unaware that taxpayers could pay more than $25,000 a year to keep someone incarcerated—so by proposing their…
Where in the World Is the Ayatollah Khamenei?
Asking Americans to identify ______ on a map is an evergreen source of amusement. Today, Morning Consult does it for Iran: About half managed to place Iran vaguely in the Middle East, so not bad, America! On the other hand, several dozen seem to have placed it in Greenland, and an equal number guessed that…
The Hypocrisy of Trump’s Threat to Destroy Iran’s Cultural Sites
Win McNamee/Getty Three days before an American drone assassinated one of Iran’s top generals, the White House bragged in a press release about spending $25 million overseas “to protect religious freedom, religious sites and relics.” Over the weekend, President Donald Trump thoroughly undermined that boast by threatening, via his favorite platform, to eradicate 52 Iranian…
Joe Biden Has Regained His Lead In Iowa
It’s been a while since I’ve caught up with the latest polls in the Democratic primary race, so let’s take a look: Nationally, both the Warren surge and the Buttigieg surge seem to have run out of steam, leaving Joe Biden still in the lead by a fair amount. In Iowa, Buttigieg has lost a…