States’ Wrongs

Over the past year, an increasingly central plank of conservative and Tea Party rhetoric is that constitutional change is needed and that the 17th Amendment in particular, which gives state residents the power to elect senators directly, should be repealed. (Previously, senators were selected by the state legislatures). Hard-right figures across the country, from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to Georgia Senate candidate Rep. Paul Broun to a steady drumbeat of state officials, have now called for repealing the amendment and giving the power to select senators back to the state legislatures. Radio host Mark Levin’s book The Liberty Amendments, calling for repeal, among other constitutional changes, was the best-selling book on constitutional law last year. Clearly this is an idea with legs. Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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JPay made ebooks from Project Gutenberg free to incarcerated people who have their tablets last month. But...where did the money they collected for all of those Project Gutenberg books go? Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2019-12-05 11:39:33 UTC ]
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Inside the State Department’s fight against Russian disinformation

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[ The Washington Post | 2019-11-27 17:01:51 UTC ]
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In “The Story of a Goat,” animals articulate their own curious perspectives on their lives — and ours. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-11-20 13:10:34 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 08:01:40 UTC ]
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[ Digiday | 2019-10-22 04:01:43 UTC ]
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