AP:  When executives from Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines spoke out against Georgia’s new voting law as unduly restrictive last week, it seemed to signal a new activism springing from corporate America.But if leaders of the nation’s most prominent companies… Continue reading

NYT: After Mr. Trump’s equivocating response to the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, Ken Frazier, the Black chief executive of Merck, resigned from a presidential advisory group, prompting dozens of other top executives to distance themselves from… Continue reading

Aaron Blake: In the weeks after the 2016 election, we were all trying to explain how Donald Trump had, somehow, narrowly won the presidency. And one phrase that had cropped up just before the election was suddenly on the… Continue reading

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Via email: Issue One is convening leading experts and officials tomorrow for a new speaker series designed to explore the most pressing matters facing American democracy today and how we can fix our broken political system. The first event in… Continue reading

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Nate Cohn at NYT’s The UpShot: There’s nothing unusual about exaggeration in politics. But when it comes to the debate over voting rights, something more than exaggeration is going on.There’s a real — and bipartisan — misunderstanding about whether making… Continue reading

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Release: Today, more than 170 Civic Alliance member companies issued a Joint Statement for Protecting Voting Access:“The Right to Vote is the Cornerstone of our Democracy. We believe every American should have a voice in our democracy and… Continue reading

NPR: Major corporations with offices in Texas are speaking out against new legislative proposals in the state that would curb expanded voter access.Corporate heavy hitters American Airlines, which is located in Fort Worth, and Dell Technologies, headquartered in Round Rock,… Continue reading

NYT analysis: Go page by page through Georgia’s new voting law, and one takeaway stands above all others: The Republican legislature and governor have made a breathtaking assertion of partisan power in elections, making absentee voting harder and… Continue reading

Among the findings in this Civics Center report on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 26th Amendment: We put enormous effort into creating it, and it has new research that I think your readers will find meaningful.  Here… Continue reading