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The Yusuf Islam incident earlier this week, in which the former Cat Stevens was denied entry into the U.S. when federal officials determined he was on the government's "no-fly" antiterror list, started with a simple spelling error. According to aviation sources with access to the list, there is...
The spike in young people’s voter registrations comes in no small part from the efforts of numerous civic-minded organizations. From the hip (Rock the Vote) to the provocative (Vote or Die) to the partisan (America Coming Together), groups of all sizes and flavors have been urging...
In a report last week, the Boston Globe zeroed in on a document showing that before Bush moved to Cambridge, Mass., in 1973 to attend Harvard Business School, he pledged to register with a local unit. In 1999 his spokesman Dan Bartlett told the Washington Post that Bush had indeed...
It is the essence of American democracy: every U.S. citizen over 18, except for prisoners and, in some states, ex-cons, can register to vote for the next President. But while many Americans don't take the obligation seriously - only about 70% even bother to register and just half of...
In an earlier era, students were a vital part of the movement that expanded voting rights. In 1963, a young Joseph I. Lieberman joined 100 college students from Yale and Stanford to register black voters in Mississippi. Writing in the Yale Daily News about his reasons for skipping class to...