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Unpopular things that the american public doesn't want and then they don't want to be hold accountable. because the only thing in our country to hold politicians accountable is through the franchise of vote. we have never had true universal suffrage. we struggled towards it, we moved towards it over the years, granting the right to vote to people who didn't own property, granting the right to vote to women. then the civil rights act got us the closest we've come to universal suffrage. what are the republicans doing? rolling it back pre-1965. that's basically what they're doing. and this is not...

>> well, i have little confidence -- what's the date today, august 18th, and we're just now getting the house bill to deal with this. seven, eight months after january 6th that we finally get this situation and it's in the house. my expectation it passes the house. it stops in the senate and that's where the biggest problem is because the unwillingness to get rid of the filibuster to save voting rights. the rev understands this well, but let's put this in historical context, nicolle. the united states of america has never had universal suffrage. the closest it came to universal suffrage in our...

Let’s build a more inclusive Hong Kong, and put people’s happiness first Restructuring Hong Kong could be disruptive, but the city can afford to take some short-term pain for long-term gain The entrenched elite fail to see that a rejuvenated Hong Kong would achieve new heights of prosperity, attracting a flood of money and talent from abroad

A new history examines how the late 19th century’s raucous party system gave way to a more sedate and exclusionary political culture that erected more and more barriers to participation.

In addition, the survey pays careful attention to the beliefs, attitudes, and experiences among foreign‐​born first‐​generation immigrants, immigrants’ American‐​born children identified in this report as second‐​generation immigrants, the grandchildren of immigrants identified as third‐​generation immigrants, and other native‐​born Americans for whom all grandparents were born in the United States. The survey included additional oversamples of Latino (N=300) and Asian (N=300) American respondents who are more likely to be or have family involved in immigration. The ...