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  • Apr 22 2019
    New Voting Laws Under Debate In Arizona, Texas And Tennessee Could Lower Turnout
    New Voting Laws Under Debate In Arizona, Texas And Tennessee Could Lower Turnout
    Apr 22 2019npr.org
    Republican State & Local Officials, Right to Vote, Arizona & Tennessee
    After high turnout in the 2018 midterms gave Democrats big gains, several Republican-controlled states are considering changing the rules around voting in ways that might reduce future turnout.
  • Feb 17 2017
    John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump’s entire worldview
    John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump’s entire worldview
    Feb 17 2017washingtonpost.com
    John McCain & Donald Trump
    John McCain is increasingly mad as hell about President Trump. And on Friday, he went after Trump — hard. During a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Republican senator from Arizona delivered a pointed and striking point-by-point takedown of Trump's worldview and brand of nationalism. McCain didn't mention Trump's name once, but he didn't have to.
  • Jul 26 2016
    Can Latinos Swing Arizona?
    Can Latinos Swing Arizona?
    Jul 26 2016newyorker.com
    Hector Tobar, Arizona, Hispanics\Latinos & 2016 Presidential Election
    Jose Barboza was up early on March 22nd, the day of the Presidential primary in Arizona. Barboza, a twenty-four-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was volunteering for Promise Arizona, a local group dedicated to turning out Latino voters. That morning, he canvassed in the barrios of Phoenix, at the foot of the dry slopes of South Mountain, making sure that the people he had registered showed up to vote. When I interviewed him in April, in the offices of Promise Arizona, he recalled the extraordinary excitement of the primary voters. In the end, a record six hundred thousand people cast ballots in the city and the rest of Maricopa County, twice the number in 2012.
  • Mar 30 2016
    ‘Please don’t shoot me,’ unarmed man begs — before being shot dead by Arizona police: report
    ‘Please don’t shoot me,’ unarmed man begs — before being shot dead by Arizona police: report
    Mar 30 2016rawstory.com
    Police Brutality & Arizona
    A police report indicates that an unarmed young father of two begged for his life before being shot dead by a police officer in Mesa, Arizona. His distraught widow is now fighting to ensure that the officer responsible ends up behind bars.
  • Feb 18 2016
    Scientists are floored by what’s happening in the Arctic right now
    Scientists are floored by what’s happening in the Arctic right now
    Feb 18 2016washingtonpost.com
    Global Warming & Chris Mooney
    New data from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration suggest that January of 2016 was, for the globe, a truly extraordinary month. Coming off the hottest year ever recorded (2015), January saw the greatest departure from average of any month on record, according to data provided by NASA.
  • Jun 29 2015
    Supreme Court upholds Arizona's independent redistricting commission, dealing blow to Republicans
    Supreme Court upholds Arizona's independent redistricting commission, dealing blow to Republicans
    Jun 29 2015dailykos.com
    Gerrymandering & Arizona
    Advocates for redistricting reform scored a crucial victory today when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Arizona's Independent Redistricting Commission. Passed by the voters in 2000 in an effort to remove legislators' bias from the redistricting process, the commission was imperiled by the GOP's rabid desire to abolish it so that they could gerrymander the state's congressional districts to give themselves a partisan advantage.
  • Jun 29 2015
    Supreme Court Breakfast Table
    Supreme Court Breakfast Table
    Jun 29 2015slate.com
    Gerrymandering, Ruth Bader Ginsburg & Arizona
    Dear Dahlia, Walter, Judge Posner, Kenji, and Marty, Justice Antonin Scalia may have been the worst-behaved justice in the courtroom this morning, Dahlia—but the chief was the most obnoxious on paper. The Arizona redistricting case brought out the worst in Chief Justice John Roberts, the petty jibes and scornful mockery that this usually staid justice strives to avoid.
  • Feb 22 2015
    We must not fear old white men: Here’s how we get past the John McCain/Fox News problem
    We must not fear old white men: Here’s how we get past the John McCain/Fox News problem
    Feb 22 2015salon.com
    Racial Politics, John McCain & Fox News
    America has forgotten how to talk about important things. Instead we talk about politics, and mostly just the personalities. It’s worse on the left than on the right. For six years, debate among Democrats centered on Obama. Was he everything he seemed? Had he done all he could? Was it wise to criticize him? Now all the talk is of the next set of contestants: Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, perhaps Sanders or O’Malley or Webb. Electoral politics devours all other politics. It consumes three of every four calendar years. Its debates are empty but entertaining. Signing on to a presidential campaign is like running off to join the circus. Crafting an agenda or building a movement is like doing your chores. Caught up in horse-race politics, we neglect other vital duties.

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