Just Give Me My Equality - Boston Review
Amidst growing suspicion that equality talk is cheap, a new book explains where egalitarianism went wrong—and what it still has to offer.
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Amidst growing suspicion that equality talk is cheap, a new book explains where egalitarianism went wrong—and what it still has to offer.
Trajectory we're going to see if the administration and democrats in congress cannot establish a nationwide floor of voting rights. it is pretty clear that in the coming years we're going to see the biggest retro regression of those rights and the biggest diversion in how the rights are available since the voting acts in 1965. there is no question about where we're watching a conspiracy being organized in plain sight with trump consolidating his control over the republican party and moving to put people in place in terms of election administration that will try to tilt the next election. and t...
Is scheduled to vote for tomorrow afternoon on a bill that would set national standards for voting acts. today, he acknowledged democrats still need ten republican votes to cross over and move this forward. >> democrats are ready to work with republicans in good faith. if they vote to begin a debate on voting rights. >> and don't stop us if you've heard some version of this before. late today, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell predicted that the ten votes from his party were unlikely to cross over. with that, let's bring in our starting line on this tuesday night yamiche alcindor, white...
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Padilla, who's been integral to this bill in the freedom to vote act. who said that, you know, he didn't express much optimism, i would probably describe it as milquetoast optimism. but he called it the final straw and he thinks that it should be viewed as the final straw for his colleagues and he's been spending time reminding his democratic colleagues that the republicans didn't support the for the people act, they didn't support creating a select commission to investigate the january 6th insurrection, and they're very unlikely to continue to support most democratic initiatives, especially e...