A recent court decision marks another victory in the battle for financial transparency in politics. But hundreds of millions of special-interest dollars will likely still be spent to influence this year’s elections, and voters won’t know where that money came from.
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Grantees of Open Society Foundations have played an important role in Connecticut’s campaign to end capital punishment.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: abolition, capital punishment, Criminal Justice Fund, death penalty, Terrance Pitts
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Joyce Ho is the inaugural Stanford-NBC News Global Health Media Fellow, which is partially funded by the Open Society Foundations. In this blog post, she shares media tips for health advocates based on her experience working with producers at NBC News.
Posted in: Health, Media & Arts, United States
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Last week, Craigslist and craigconnects founder Craig Newmark released a witty and comprehensive infographic on voter suppression across the United States.
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Rather than properly address the needs of black students, U.S. schools continue to pass the buck to the criminal justice system, which transforms good kids into hardened criminals and hinders the possibility of positive life outcomes.
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The portrayal of African American men as violent criminals, thugs, and vagrants paves the way for acts such as the one perpetrated against Trayvon Martin.
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An new breed of Super PACs have been born, like the Campaign for Primary Accountability Super PAC, which aims to solve the problem of incumbency instead of supporting individual candidates –but are supporters correct when they argue that such Super PACs help, rather than hurt, democracy?
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The gist of what Kanye was saying is something that’s close to my own heart: It has to do with the potential of design to improve the world we live in.
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Is it constitutional to require all Americans to either procure health insurance or pay a penalty?
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Let's take the politics out of election administration, so that it is once again about making voting work rather than keeping people from the polls.
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