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Nayib Bukele, whose parents migrated from Palestine, won the 2019 presidential elections in El Salvador for the conservative Great National Alliance (GANA) party.

According to NPR, the For the People Act, which was introduced on Friday by House Democrats, is a 571-page compilation of existing problems and solutions across issues of voting, political money, redistricting, and ethics. “We heard loud and clear from the American people, they feel left out and locked out from their own democracy,” John […]

This past Tuesday, the Senate passed the First Step Act with much bipartisan support. The bill provides the most significant reforms for federal prisoners in the criminal justice system in decades, although critics point out that given the “tough on crime” anti-Black rhetoric both parties have been trafficking in, that isn’t much.

By “DJ Ferguson” All Star Batman and Robin: The Boy Wonder written by Frank Miller is an unholy mixture of camp and 90s grim-and-gritty/edgy for its own sake, but this interaction between Batman and Green Lantern will stick with me for the rest of my life. This story takes place not long after Batman: Year […]

According to CNBC, this week Google CEO Sundar Pichai faced three and a half hours of questions from the House Judiciary Committee about political bias on Google’s platforms, plans for a censored search app in China, and privacy practices. This marks Pichai’s first appearance before Congress as the tech giant refused to send him or Google co-founder […]

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld victories in lower courts by Planned Parenthood after Republican-led states sought to strip the organization of Medicaid funding following the court’s move further to the right with the confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh.

According to Newsweek, newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently criticized the way that the American healthcare system works against working class people, remarking that her healthcare coverage when she was a waitress required her to pay twice the amount she currently pays as a United States Congress member. According to a Harris poll, her proposed […]

by JaLoni Amor Owens The first thing I did on the morning of November 8, 2016 was remind all of my friends back home in Massachusetts to vote, but on the morning of election day of this year, the first thing I did was groan and bury my face in my pillow. The last thing […]

On Wednesday, President Trump expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would minimize prison sentences, ease mandatory minimums, and offer inmates services after their incarceration.

As exit polls came flooding in late Tuesday night, many of them looked like overlays from the 2016 presidential election which saw Republican Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton and Republicans retain Republican majorities in both the House and the Senate. In this election’s exit polls, it was revealed that Donald Trump still holds sway over […]

Brian Kemp, the Georgia secretary of state and the Republican candidate of governor in Georgia, has issued a call to investigate the Georgia Democratic Party ahead of the upcoming election. Two days out from a too-close-to-call contest against Stacey Abrams, Kemp alleges that someone attempted to hack voting registration files and pointed to finger at […]

Around 4 p.m. on Sunday, a person with a gun shot four bullets into the Volusia County Republican Party office in South Daytona, Florida. No was killed or injured, but many feel this is yet another example of the uniquely heated political climate ahead of this year’s midterm elections.