A Selma Voting Rights March re-enactment in March near White Hall, Ala., protesting the state’s new voter ID and immigration laws. (AP photo) The mean-spirited, massive drive to cut down the vote, state by state COMMENTARY For reporters and editors, is there a more important story for democracy in America than the laws making it harder, sometimes almost impossible, for millions of people to vote? Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center spells them out: 22 new laws and two executive actions in 17 states, and at least 74 more restrictive bills pending in 24 states.

Absurdity, if not piggishness, from the super-rich COMMENTARY Hank Banta offers an arithmetic lesson for Edward Conard, the former Bain executive who says the gigantic distortion in income in America is good and proper. Banta also urges the press to note the absurdity of the claim and, for once, use some intelligent judgment in writing instead of sticking to false ideas of 'balance.'

Tough questions about ALEC -- from ALEC itself ASK THIS Memo to ALEC members on how to dodge pointed inquiries into the group's mechanisms exposes its vulnerability to accusations that it is a lobbying arm for corporate interests.

| Why is the New York Times enabling a U.S. government smear campaign against reporters exposing the drone wars? ASK THIS The Times let government officials anonymously attack a group of journalists and a lawyer who have uncovered evidence that belies the White House's claim that drones aren't killing many civilians. Was their rationale for that justified?

Raining Hellfire | Civilian drone victims, unrecognized by the U.S. government and public, seek justice
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The US says civilian deaths by CIA drones are 'exceedingly rare', but the survivors of one attack that killed 50 in Pakistan describe the horror of a Hellfire hit in a petition to the government to criminally charge those responsible.

Kushnick, Part 4 | Broadband wars: The battle for New Jersey has begun
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Telecom activist Bruce Kushnick asks: Will Verizon be held accountable for its broken promises? Or will it get a slap on the wrist and the OK to abandon wired telephone service?

Impunity Index | CPJ tracks where journalists are killed with impunity
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One new resource from the Committee to Protect Journalists ranks countries by their failure to punish the murder of journalists; another offers advice on how not to become a victim.

What Potter Stewart said | Should the press interview grand jurors? Why not? SHOWCASE Barry Sussman describes how it was that the Washington Post’s Watergate reporters came to call on grand jurors, and says that, as an editor, if a similar situation arose he would make the same assignment again.

Kushnick, Part 3 | The great Verizon FiOS ripoff
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Verizon's decision to stop expanding FiOS, in favor of wireless, shafts millions of customers who paid billions for a network upgrade and didn't get it.

The GOP, ‘an insurgent outlier’ | Mann and Ornstein can’t take it anymore
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Two mainstay Washington political scientists urge the press to cease its distorting ‘even-handed’ reporting and take note that the Republican party, now so extreme, is the core reason for dysfunctional government in the nation’s capital.

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