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January 18, 2008 - Every four years, you can always tell when the Republican presidential primaries are headed South. The claws come out, the dirty tricks ramp up -- and the political positions of the GOP hopefuls all turn sharply to the right.

January 18, 2008 - Mississippi Public Radio will be doing a segment this morning covering the report released by the Institute this week on Hurricane Katrina and human rights.

January 17, 2008 - Attorneys representing uninsured patients filed a lawsuit today to require Louisiana to reopen Charity Hospital or to take other measures to care for people with chronic health conditions that have been worsened by a lack of access to doctors since Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana has one of the highest rates of uninsured residents in the nation.

January 17, 2008 - Discussions about youth involvement in government and politics frequently turn to the question: "Do they still teach civics these days?" With early voting underway in many states in the South and Super Tuesday right around the corner, parents have an excellent opportunity for a real life civics lesson: Take your kids with you when you vote!

January 16, 2008 - It's a cold, rainy day here in New Orleans -- but that didn't stop all of the city's major TV networks from coming to our press conference to release our new report on Hurricane Katrina and global human rights (you can download the full PDF

January 15, 2008 - Institute for Southern Studies Director Chris Kromm was one of the speakers at a Brookings Institution panel discussion held yesterday titled "Fires, Floods, Earthquakes and Tsunamis: A Human Rights Perspective

January 11, 2008 - Earlier this week we reported on the disparities between machine- and hand-counted votes in the New Hampshire presidential primary. Citing those disparities as well as others between pre-election polls and the actual results, Democratic candidate Rep.