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Arizona Supreme Court hears case challenging legality of Invest in Ed proposition 208 04/21/2021 Appellate court justices met at the Arizona Supreme Court for the hearing Thursday Oct.17 (Hailey Rein/DD) The Arizona Supreme Court met to hear Karen Fann v. State of Arizona on Tuesday, regarding the constitutionality of Proposition 208, a ballot initiative passed in the 2020 General Election. Prop. 208 is a ballot measure that increases the highest income tax rate in the state of Arizona by 3.5%, and intends to put the revenue toward state education. Invest in Education, a key proponent of Prop...

Even corporations oppose voter suppression By Bill Knight More than 100 leaders from airlines, manufacturers, the NFL and retailers on Saturday met online to discuss action to fight state bills they see as discriminatory. Corporations including Coca Cola, Delta Air Lines and UPS are considering delaying investments in states trying to suppress the voter or curtailing campaign contributions. Recent struggles concerning the right to vote in free and fair elections – key to self-governance – include the U.S. Supreme Court on March 2 hearing arguments about an Arizona law limiting voting acce...

Democrats and progressives generally believe voting should be a universal right easily available to all citizens, and it’s not the government’s role to decide who is knowledgeable enough, motivated enough or virtuous enough to vote. Many conservative and Republican leaders disagree, however, suggesting that American citizens who do not meet such standards shouldn’t vote, or at least should be discouraged from voting.  For example, Andrew McCarthy stated in National Review: “It would be far better if the franchise were not exercised by ignorant, civics-illiterate people." Mississip...

In the spring of 2015, I was blessed with the opportunity to travel to El Salvador for the beatification ceremony of St. Óscar Romero (he was canonized in 2018). The Mass was an intense and electric ceremony on its own—hundreds of thousands packed the capital city’s Plaza Salvador del Mundo—but equally powerful were the days before and after. Did you know that one can visit the saint’s apartment? Right across the street from where he was martyred by Salvadoran paramilitaries while saying Mass, it has been preserved as it was the day he was killed, including his bookshelves.

comments Their ultimate destination? It could be Jim Crow white supremacist America of the 1950s. It could be the end of Reconstruction in 1876 – or even a time before that. Advertisement: In that sense, the Republican Party and its allies and followers are time-breakers, not content with harmless nostalgia and happy-pill lies about the past. Their goal? To radically remake society in their own grotesque vision where white, right-wing "Christians" — men, by definition — rule America unopposed and for all time. Such a world would be a utopia for them and a dystopia for everyone else...