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An African-American family in Southern Mississippi in 1895.Credit...Sepia Times/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images This is the story of how a bill to save the vote and preserve a semblance of democracy for millions of Americans died at the hands of an intransigent, reactionary minority in the Senate, which used the filibuster to do its dirty work. In the summer of 1890, the state of Mississippi held its second constitutional convention of the post-Civil War era. The first, in 1868, was an attempt to make biracial democracy a reality. This second was meant to be the final nail in its cof...

U.S. Senator-Elect Warnock (D-GA) Not since upstart Governor Jimmy Carter (D) Georgia won the White House in 1976 has the Peach State played such a critical position in American politics. While the Deep South went from solid conservative blue in the late 1980s to solid conservative red, there have been splotches of “purple” popping up here and there. A lot of it has to do with the southern migration of Northeastern and Midwestern voters for retirement or jobs. Let’s “brunch” on that this week.   “If You Build It, They Will Come” – In the 1970s and 80s living in Wisconsin, I n...

The Globe and Mail ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/Reuters Election Day in Georgia turned out to be Groundhog Day – a virtual repeat of the November presidential race that was too close to call on election night in a bitterly divided electorate. A repeat performance – once again Georgia provided a huge rebuff to President Donald Trump – with the verdict sending another Democratic shock wave, and two new Democratic senators, to Washington. Two months ago, the close-call election in the state was a vital building block of president-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, which was on the verge of...

This is the post-Four Seasons landscaping media ecology. Ugly, fact-free press conferences held under absurd conditions are ostensibly to be taken as something other than what they are. Reductio ad absurdum is an important mathematical idea — if one reduces an equation to say 2+2=5 or that 2+2 does not equal 4, you know it is wrong. Without a mooring in the not-absurd journalism goes entirely off the rails, becoming bad drama or a full-scale farce. Finally, I have a real apple computer, not one of those macintoshes. Of course not all news folks are pretending that the material circulated un...

Back to "hardball." our history shows good and bad people have run for third-party candidates. roosevelt split the republican vote and elebted woodrow wilson. democrat henry wallace ran on the progressive ticket and strong thurman ran on the dixie ticket but truman still won anyway. george wallace ran as an independent splitting the democrat's solid south, giving the election to richard nixon. john anderson and liberal pat lucy ran together on a third party but had no real impact on the vote count. ronald regan defeated zimy carter. ross perot of texas ran what seemed to be a vendetta campaign...