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California is fighting a losing battle against Title IX and human biology
After an investigation into California’s legal protection of biological males who identify as female competing in the same ...
Utah Sen. Mike Lee Says Selling Off Public Lands Will Solve the West’s Housing Crisis. Past Sales Show Otherwise.
Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did ...
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How Women in New Jersey Gained—and Lost—the Right to Vote More Than a Century Before the 19th Amendment Granted Suffrage Nationwide
Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...
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Freedom fighter John Lewis
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act combat ongoing racial discrimination, establish basic standards for free and fair elections, and expand early ...
‘Grant’s Enforcer’ Review: A 19th-Century War on Terror
A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...
‘We the People’ Includes All Americans – But July 4 Is A Reminder That Democracy Remains A Work In Progress
The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 249 years ago, on July 4, 1776.
249 years later, American democracy is still strong
The United States is alive and well 249 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and that’s a great thing to ...