Once the dust settles on the Presidential race, Georgia will become the center of the American political universe for the rest of 2020. With several Republican Senators holding on to their seats, Biden’s ability to get anything done in his first two years will likely hinge on the two Senate…

Every time we go through a Supreme Court nomination process, I find myself thinking of the final court scene of The Hurricane. While the film’s re-telling of framed boxer Rubin Carter’s fight for freedom is dramatized, the scene captures the importance of having judges who understand that interpretation of law…

Trump didn’t hijack the Republican party, he just took the wheel and drove them where they were already going — and they were happy to accept the ride. After four years, most of the country wants off the Trump Train, and his unhinged behavior is making it hard for Republicans…

“We must take back the streets” Joe Biden bellowed on the Senate floor in 1993 “And you take back the streets by more cops, more prisons…The Biden-Hatch crime bill, as it becomes law, god willing, I hope that we will have ended, once and for all, this notion that somehow…

If the noise coming from Joe Biden’s presidential campaign sounds familiar, it might be because it echoes the message that we heard four years ago from Donald Trump. No, Biden is not using blatantly racist messaging to appeal to a rabid base of white voters who are aggrieved by the…

Updating our voting rights laws to become the shining Democracy we claim ourselves to be has a been a long road. For a long time, only white men who owned land were able to vote. By 1856, every state had changed its laws to allow landless white men to vote…

“When men oppress their fellow men, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for the oppression.” -Frederick Douglas In 2017, answering to calls for the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee in Virginia, a mob of white men marched through…