As the Citizens United decision has opened the flood gates of organizational spending on public speech this election cycle, which organizations are allowed to participate and in what capacity has predictably been at issue. The Washington Post reports that groups that are set-up under the tax code as charities, and [...]
New research done by leading criminologists indicates that the growing inequality in this country continues to be highly exacerbated by the widespread and increasing use of prisons and jails. The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, even including regimes typically labeled as repressive, such [...]
By now, the clusterf–k in America’s housing market has been pretty thoroughly documented. Thanks to the quick thinking of a Maine public interest lawyer, the country discovered that mortgage companies had been cooking the books in order to push tens of thousands of families out of their homes. But the [...]
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