New Orleans It can’t be a surprise that the Republican, rightwing majority in the Roberts’ Supreme Court looked for a minute at the law and a long time at the galloping growth of the rich and advancing inequality, and decided to follow the money. In a 5-4 decision the Supremes voted to unleash some of …
Category: Voting Rights
Midterms Looking Very Bad
New Orleans About the best thing that Democrats can say these days is that November is still seven months away and that anything can happen in politics in that time. True that, but otherwise for Democrats facing the mid-term elections, if it weren’t for bad news, they wouldn’t have any news at all. Master …
Middle-Class Movement Meets Political Machines in Indian Election Run-up
Bengaluru In the one and one-half years since I last visited Bengaluru, or Bangalore as it is still known in the West, the changes were visible from the time I hit the expressway. The new airport, 40 kilometers from the city center is no longer as new, but for the first time the ride was …