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Ask the Indy: Is the Electoral College a ‘relic of slavery?’...

Following our explainer on the latest Electoral College protest movement and Colorado’s role in it, readers reached out with still more questions about the...

What does it mean that 35% of Colorado voted against banning...

Colorado voters were asked this election whether they wanted to ban slavery once and for all in the state. Just under two-thirds of voters supported...

Amendment A: What’s the argument against Colorado’s ballot measure to ban...

It’s not easy to find people who oppose the effort to finally, formally ban slavery in Colorado, but they do exist. Two Western Slope district...

The big questions on your November 2018 ballot in Colorado

From slavery to hemp to fixing our “damn roads,” Coloradans will face a kaleidoscope of questions on their November ballots. With the election more...

Wiretap: Even National Review wonders if Alabama will elect a man...

From The National Review, David French writes that it’s one thing to honor important men and women who had profound moral failings — say,...

Wiretap: How the death of John Kelly’s son in Afghanistan became...

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has spent seven years trying to keep his son’s death in Afghanistan free from politics. Now his...

Wiretap: Frederick Douglass’s 1852 July 4th address does amazing job of...

If you're searching in vain for dignity on the Fourth of July in the time of Donald Trump, The New Yorker's David Remnick advises...

The great-granddaughter of a slave on the failure of Amendment T

Supporters of anti-slavery Amendment T were shocked Thursday to learn that Colorado voters had officially turned down the ballot measure. Those who worked to...

Slavery is legal in Colorado. This November, you can change that.

Colorado voters this fall will have a chance to finally put an end to legalized slavery. Wasn’t there a Civil War about that? And wasn’t...

Colorado clergy demand lawmakers end legal slavery. Huh?

Clergy members are celebrating a new bill to nix a law that allows slavery to be used to punish convicts.   Slavery has been abolished in the...
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