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In response to President Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland today, Demos President Heather McGhee has issued the following response. Failure by Senate leadership, including Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, to do their jobs is not just partisan obstructionism—it’s also a dereliction of
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But Sean McElwee recently argued for Slate that “No, Jeb Bush’s failed campaign doesn’t mean Citizens United doesn’t matter”: Saying that money doesn’t matter in politics because Jeb didn’t win the nomination is like saying because all the advertising in the world can’t make prune juice the best
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce
Low-Income Nevadans Will Have Federally Required Access to Voter Registration
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How the single most important solution to economic inequality isn’t an economic policy, it’s tackling racism.
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The scheme to use race to divide Americans who would otherwise be united in their economic goals is the best-kept secret in American politics.
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Heather McGhee
The advocates' letter threatens legal action if the state doesn’t cooperate. Scott Novakowski, an attorney with Demos, said the groups hope to come to an understanding with the state and map out short-term and long-term solutions for the problems. Nevada still is mired in a lawsuit filed in 2012 by
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Megan Messerly
Adam Lioz, who is counsel and senior adviser for the campaign finance reform advocacy group Demos, agrees, telling Truthout he is confident that the president will select a nominee with a strong record on campaign finance reform, but is more worried about whether the president will be able to move
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Candice Bernd
Demos is proud to announce the addition of Liz Flowers to our team as Director of Communications.
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Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst focusing on higher education at the nonpartisan think tank Demos, is also critical of the Department of Education: “The problem that we’ve seen over the past year and a half is that the effort to ensure that Corinthian’s fall wasn’t a total catastrophe is not
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Sarah Jaffe
Paid family leave is finally gaining steam in the United States. President Obama and the Democratic presidential candidates universally embrace the idea. And while a conservative Congress may stymie federal action for years, states from New York to Colorado to Oregon are moving toward implementing
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Amy Traub