The third branch: Parliament's relationship with the courts

The state has three independent branches. Victoria University Dean of Law Geoff McLay helps explain the crucial relationship ...

Voters lose when maps get redrawn before every election instead of once a decade − a trend started in Texas, moving to California and likely spreading a…

With a new, mid-cycle redistricting war raging in state after state, the media and politicians focus on which party is ...
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Democracy and capitalism: A strained relationship

Credit where credit is due… I was inspired to explore this topic after reading a piece in the Wall Street Journal by Jonathan Levy, “Capitalism and Democracy Often Clash in America: They Usually End ...
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LaTasha Brown Warns: Gutting Voting Rights Betrays Democracy

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 1965, on a bridge in Selma, Alabama, Black Americans faced tear gas, billy clubs, and hatred as they marched for the right to vote. Police beat and bloodied them, yet they ...
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Capitalism and Democracy Often Clash in America. They Usually End Up Better for It.

Workers at a Ford plant in Michigan, 1920s. (Getty Images) The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American ...