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The Republican secretaries of state in Ohio and Alabama sent letters to local Democratic party chairs this past week with a warning: President Joe Biden, as the law stands now, won’t appear on their states’ ballots in November. Both secretaries say the president’s nomination won’t occur in time to meet their states’ ballot access deadlines. The…

As the United States plunges toward the 2024 presidential vote, it is clear that millions of citizens no longer trust an essential element of American democracy: elections. Electoral trust has been gradually declining in the U.S. for over two decades, according to polls. The slump’s roots go as far back as Democratic anger over the Supreme…

In a large, empty parking lot outside Atlanta, one car slowly careened around parking spaces. From the passenger seat, driving instructor Nancy Gobran peered over large sunglasses at her student, a Syrian refugee woman who was driving for one of the first times in her life. “Turn the wheel and then accelerate,” Ms. Gobran, the…

Marquisa Gaines-Nickelson’s labor was accompanied by a soundtrack: the voices of R&B titans like Mary J. Blige, Al Green, and Anita Baker. Her husband and “labor DJ” Mazi Nickelson curated the music that reverberated through the delivery room. The playlist was part of a birth plan that they prepared with the help of their doula,…

When Donald Trump stated early this week that abortion policy should be left to the states, the once and possibly future president may have thought the issue was behind him. But it wasn’t to be. The next day, the Arizona Supreme Court revived an 1864 state law banning all abortions, except to save the life of…

President Joe Biden may have some useful foils in November besides former President Donald Trump: down-ballot “Make America Great Again” Republicans.  In Arizona, polls show Mr. Trump leads Mr. Biden by 3 to 6 percentage points. But GOP Senate candidate Kari Lake is trailing her Democratic opponent by as many as 8 points. The divisive former…

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