We Need to Build a Voting-Rights Movement

The time has come to translate widespread outrage about voter suppression into momentum for an actionable voting-rights agenda.

Rep. John Conyers and Barbara Arnwine

Flint Is the Predicted Outcome of Michigan’s Long, Dangerous History With ‘Emergency Managers’

For years, I have joined voters, other elected officials, and even courts in warning that the right-wing takeover of local government would end this way.

Rep. John Conyers

Why the TPP Is a Terrible Deal for Most Americans

Trade agreements boost economic growth, while destroying lives and livelihoods.

Rep. John Conyers

Dissent Versus Sabotage

Through a half-century of foreign policy hardball, there’s a line I’ve never crossed.

Rep. John Conyers

The Contempt of Karl Rove

Fifty years ago, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that all citizens have an “unremitting obligation” to respond to Congressional subpoenas. Karl Rove has breached this obligation.

Rep. John Conyers

Setting the Record Straight on FISA

Civil liberties and national security are not contradictory: they are inextricably linked.

Rep. John Conyers

A Unified Security Budget

We need a unified security budget to coherently allocate dollars to the military, homeland security and peacemaking efforts abroad.

Rep. John Conyers

A Motion for Censure

In a report issued December 20, Representative John Conyers Jr. documents the misconduct of President Bush and his Adminisration, and makes the case that they should be censured by Congress for violating a series of federal laws.

Rep. John Conyers

‘If You’re Talkin’ Politics…’

Ani DiFranco, Our Readers and Rep. John Conyers