Politics

August 20, 2013 - North Carolina Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, a progressive Democrat from Orange County, is giving up her seat in the legislature to work with a grassroots effort to ensure voters have the type of identification required by the state's restrictive new voting law.

August 20, 2013 - A union organizer and a third-generation organizer working in the South offer their ideas for building a culture of unionism in the region -- or anywhere the idea of collective development and exercise of power has waned.

August 15, 2013 - Three lawsuits have been filed alleging that North Carolina's new voting law is discriminatory and unconstitutional. We look at some of the numbers behind those claims.

August 14, 2013 - Mrs. Rosanell Eaton once fought for voting rights under Jim Crow. Now she and other civil rights advocates are fighting for voting rights under North Carolina's Republican government.

August 9, 2013 - Facing a legal challenge under the Voting Rights Act over its redistricting maps, the Lone Star State argues that its racism isn't flagrant enough to be of concern.

August 8, 2013 - The broad election changes bill passed by the North Carolina legislature and awaiting the governor's signature has a number of provisions worrying to voting rights advocates. But among the most troubling are those that expand the powers of poll observers and election challengers, whose efforts take place in the context of the state's struggles with racism.

August 8, 2013 - The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority was formed after Hurricane Katrina to ensure qualified experts -- not politicians' friends -- were in charge of flood control. But now the authority is under pressure from Gov. Bobby Jindal and other Louisiana politicians for filing a lawsuit to force oil and gas companies to pay for the damage they've done to the state's coastal wetlands.