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June 13, 2012

The Constitution does not guarantee Americans the right to vote. That always comes as a surprise to non-lawyers. But you will search the Constitution in vain for any such guarantee, as the Supreme Court cheerily reminded us in Bush v. Gore. What the Constitution contains is a series of “thou shalt nots.” Thou shalt not deny ...

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June 12, 2012

Any intelligent person following American politics these days should be deeply distressed by the ever-growing role of big money in our electoral process. The extraordinary concentration of wealth in the hands of relatively few Americans has completely distorted the nature of political discourse. As multi-millionaires, billionaires and powerful corporations are now free to spend unlimited ...

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We all know that America’s cities and towns are in the throes of a deep financial crisis. And are told, over and over, what’s supposedly behind it: unreasonable demands by grasping state and municipal workers for pay and pensions. The diagnosis is a grotesque cartoon. Many of the biggest budget busters are on Wall Street, ...

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June 11, 2012

  Michael Waldman, executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice, on the difficulties of Florida’s attempt at an accurate voter roll purge

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All across the country this week, graduation ceremonies will strive to provide America’s newest high school and college graduates with inspirational messages about perseverance, hope and ambition. It’s a message that is getting harder to say with a straight face, particularly in the high school auditoriums where many students will not be heading off to ...

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This month, Europe will either sink deeper into economic crisis, or drastically reverse course. The results from the first round of the French legislative elections Sunday are encouraging. Projections suggest that after the second round next Sunday, President Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party will either have an absolute majority, or, at worst, a working majority with ...

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Europe’s top politicians, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, seem determined to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Last weekend, the financial crisis seemed to be contained for the moment when the Germans and the European Central Bank agreed to commit 100 billion euros  through the European Union’s (E.U.) rescue funds to recapitalize ...

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June 9, 2012

The crisis in 2006 was more of a problem of too much debt and leverage of the private sector – households, banks, financial institutions and corporations. Now as a result of the response to the crisis-fiscal stimulus, bailing out banks and others we have a massive surge of public debt and deficits and now there’s ...

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