Joyce Harris voted for the first time when she landed in Chicago’s Cook County Jail on a drug...
Oct 13, 2020
‘Mail voting doesn’t work for Navajo Nation’: Native Americans face steep election hurdles
Tamisha Jensen requested a mail ballot in mid-September. Mail ballots don’t ship in Arizona until Oct. 7, but she’s...
Oct 09, 2020
New Tennessee law surfaces the South’s racist beginnings of felon voter disenfranchisement
This story was originally published by Scalawag, a journalism and storytelling organization that illuminates dissent, unsettles dominant narratives, pursues justice...
Sep 29, 2020
How young poll workers may save Americans from Election Day chaos
Evan Malbrough is one of the younger — and more valuable — poll workers in his Atlanta, Ga., precinct. The 22-year-old...
Sep 17, 2020
10 years since the Arab Spring, ‘an explosive situation’ builds in Tunisia
In 2010, a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire and later died. His suicide kicked...
Sep 16, 2020
The drop box rises as a compromise between the mail and the voting booth
This story by the Fulcrum is part of the SoJo Exchange from the Solutions Journalism Network, a nonprofit...
Sep 14, 2020
Why Pennsylvania is ground zero for mail-in voting debate
This story by the Christian Science Monitor is part of the SoJo Exchange from the Solutions Journalism Network,...
Sep 14, 2020
‘We have an obligation to correct this’: Behind the growing movement to add more women to history lessons
The famous Norman Rockwell painting “The Problem We All Live With” depicts 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, who is Black,...
Sep 04, 2020
How to recognize fascism
As the saying goes, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. As the world commemorates the 75th...
Sep 04, 2020
The American community organizer wanted for arrest by China
WASHINGTON — On the morning of July 31, Samuel Chu, a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and community organizer,...
Aug 27, 2020