Politics

February 15, 2012 - Students in Raleigh, North Carolina -- the home base of top Republican donor Art Pope -- are picketing Pope's stores, hoping to highlight a disconnect between his low-income, minority shoppers and the conservative agenda his money supports.

February 13, 2012 - A new study finds that wage theft is a shockingly common problem -- and a growing number of states and local communities are looking for solutions.

February 10, 2012 - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) would not allow his colleagues to vote on a stronger version of a law banning insider trading by members of Congress, instead offering a substitute that stripped out disclosure provisions objectionable to some of his biggest campaign donors.

February 9, 2012 - While Mississippi voters defeated a widely-publicized, anti-abortion "personhood" initiative in fall 2011, they also approved another measure: a bill requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls.

February 9, 2012 - So far six Democratic lawmakers have announced they will not seek re-election to the legislature in the wake of Republican-controlled redistricting -- all of them women. It's part of a larger pattern of policies hostile to women's interests coming out of Raleigh.

February 6, 2012 - Karen Handel, the Komen Foundation VP now alleged to have spearheaded the decision to sever funding for Planned Parenthood, was earlier known for her controversial and litigation-prone reign as Georgia's elections chief.

February 2, 2012 - After a brief hiatus, the battle over voting rights is heating up in states across the South and country as November approaches.