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The Infrastructure Bill Should Look After Our Future, and Our Past Clint Smith © Provided by The Atlantic (NATIONAL ARCHIVE / NEWSMAKERS / GETTY) In its $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, the Biden administration seeks to expand the public’s conception of what is and is not infrastructure. It is right to do so. Infrastructure is not just the bridge we drive across; it is the home health aides who look after our parents and grandparents. Infrastructure is not simply the train we ride, but also the day care where we drop our children off before heading to work. Democrats ...

When former Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. was weighing a run for governor in 2019, research was done on whether he could conduct a viable campaign as an independent. Waller, of course, opted to run as a Republican and later lost a runoff election in the primary to then-Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, who had a massive campaign war chest and was viewed as the heavy favorite. At the time, Waller and others feared that an independent – even a former Supreme Court justice – would not be taken seriously in Mississippi, where there is not much history of viable third-party...

Civil rights to the White House: Black leaders who blazed trails in US politics and changed American history By Chris Williams article The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is shown in the early morning light on Martin Luther King Day January 15, 2018 in Washington DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) The Civil Rights Movement marked a pivotal turning point in Black history. First gaining traction in the 1950s with Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, civil rights advocates demonstrated, protested and remained steadfast in the fight for equality between communities. Advocates for equ...

While impeachment could have blocked Trump’s possibility at future political office, financial fallout over the Jan. 6 attack could harm him even more. Former President Donald Trump looks out his window as his motorcade drives through West Palm Beach, Fla., after arriving from Washington aboard Air Force One on Jan. 20, 2021. (Damon Higgins/The Palm Beach Post via AP) WASHINGTON  (CN) — As the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump continued his legacy of creating new constitutional issues, questions remain as to how Trump could be held additionally liable for the Jan. 6 rio...

4 Key Points About Trump and ‘Incitement’ Law His words are in question: President Donald Trump speaks Jan. 6 at the rally of supporters that preceded the riot at the Capitol. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) If and when the Senate holds its second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, this time after he no longer is president, one argument in his defense may well be based on a legal precedent that has guided incitement cases since 1969.  The House of Representatives impeached the president Wednesday for “incitement to insurrection” because of Trump’s speech at a rally a week ea...