The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 protects Americans from political intimidation. Ulysses S. Grant used the law to suppress a Klan-led insurrection in the South.
Six decades ago, Reagan, Sen. Barry Goldwater, conservative writer William F. Buckley Jr. and others in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society, who claimed former President Eisenhower was a communist plant.
Alessandro Vespignani sounded an alarm at the start of the coronavirus crisis. Now he wants us to build an early-warning system.
A turnout disaster four years ago and an ongoing pandemic have spurred creative ways to defeat the president.
Cleveland’s experience shows why “opportunity zones” help middle-income neighborhoods more than poor ones.
The Justice Department opened a record number of civil rights investigations of police departments, which led to reforms that are still changing cities. Trump abandoned those efforts. Biden has said he’d go even further than his old boss.
Peddocks Island’s summer cottagers are the last people who live on a Boston Harbor island. Their community has an expiration date nobody knows.
It’s been 30 years this month since the unsolved Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist first rocked Boston and the art world. Ever wonder what will happen if the 13 stolen artworks are recovered? For the first time, Gardner security chief Anthony Amore offers a step-by-step guide.
By helping worker-owned cooperatives launch, the city is trying to boost its lower-income residents.
Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
More of my coverage of urban jobs efforts:
Detroit’s Plan to Make Sure Redevelopment Boosts the Whole City
A groundbreaking law requires new projects to hire locally and build neighborhood amenities.
Her voters, convinced the Democratic Party had abandoned them, helped turn the state red. Can she find the right message to woo them back?
Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
