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Alabama Pre-K thrived outside of politics. Then Kay Ivey dragged it in
Commentary on the First-Class pre-kindergarten program in Alabama, special interest extremists in Ohio, voting rhetoric in Minnesota, election denial in Georgia, Ron DeSantis in Florida, gun violence in Virginia, Secretary of State Shemia Fagan in Oregon, and trans athlete student bans in New Jersey.
Alabama resumes its cruel war on transgender youth
Commentary on anti-trans legislation in Alabama, the silencing of Zooey Zephyr in Montana, the aftermath of the Tennessee mass shooting, Gov. Kristi Noem's NRA convention appearance in South Dakota, anti-transparency in Colorado, Senate GOP in Iowa, anti-trans rhetoric in Missouri, and child care shortages in Kansas.
It’s the guns
Commentary on the mass shooting in Alabama, gun rights in Colorado, child trafficking in Wisconsin, voting disruption in Ohio, Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, gun laws in Kentucky, state government in Tennessee, and Nevada's economy.
How many more AR-15 massacres?
Commentary on the mass shooting in Kentucky, the Tennessee Three, economic incentives in Alabama, the Republican caucus bill in Iowa, anti-trans laws in Kansas, book bans in Indiana, the Texas abortion pill ruling in North Carolina, and voting policy in Virginia.
Stockard on the Stump: World watches House kick out two reps for 15 seconds of protest
Commentary on the Tennessee Three, the decline of minority rule in Wisconsin, the anti-trans bill in Kansas, public school funding in Ohio, campaign donors in New Jersey, trans rights in Nebraska, legislative process in Indiana, and Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia.
Gun violence is a proxy war on the American public
Commentary on gun violence in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, felon voting in Virginia, anti-abortion rhetoric in South Dakota, voting rights in Ohio, the prison crisis in Alabama, and the recent mass shooting in Tennessee.
As other states attack LGBTQ+ kids, Michigan emerges as a safe haven
Commentary on the LGBTQ community in Michigan, political fixations on the LGBTQ community in New Jersey, child-theft in Tennessee, the history of Hanover County public schools in Virginia, child care in Kentucky, sex abuse survivors in Kansas, abortion bans in Alabama, and sterilizing history in Florida.
Kansas legislators’ war on the poor opens worrisome new front: School vouchers and tax avoidance
Commentary on school vouchers and tax avoidance in Kansas, GOP principles in Iowa, political favoritism in Ohio, anti-abortion centers in Colorado, policing mental health in New Jersey, and fabulist ideologies in Tennessee.
Demands by protesters and Breonna Taylor’s family helped expose the rot in Louisville policing
Commentary on Louisville policing in Kentucky, lawmakers in Kansas, the corruption trial in Ohio, the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, parental rights in Iowa, birth control access in Indiana.
Republican lawmakers are taking Kentucky back to education’s bad old days
Commentary on the state of education in Kentucky, Republicans' minority rule in Arizona, the culture wars in Florida, an anti-transgender bill in Kansas, labor trafficking in Wisconsin, and gun extremists in Colorado.
Given a chance to apologize for the theft of a Black man’s heart, House Republicans declined.
Commentary on Black laborer Bruce Tucker in Virginia, civil rights activist Arthur Madison in Alabama, pronoun preferences in Kentucky, the experiences of a transgender woman in New Jersey, Mark Brnovich's ties to Fox News in Arizona, and the status of Republicans in Colorado.
Black people live every day with hurdles that former health chief tried to diminish
Commentary on black maternal health in Virginia, the death penalty in Pennsylvania, LGBTQ education policy in Iowa, 2020 election probe indictments in Georgia, public school funding in Wisconsin, and the bribery trial in Ohio.