The New York Times Editorial Board writes a scathing indictment of Louisiana’s Republican government for gutting funding at Grambling State, which has resulted in the football team’s boycott over conditions. Under Gov. Bobby Jindal, Louisiana has been slashing state support for higher education, with funding for Grambling down 56 percent since 2008 (and funding for…

The federal government’s anti-poverty programs have largely ignored a vast number of childless adults living in poverty, the New York Times editorial board writes in a piece that disassembles the Republican Party’s relentless assault on the programs. For impoverished Americans, the biggest obstacle to health insurance remains the refusal of 26 mostly Republican-led states to expand their…

The New York Times Editorial Board is taking the proponents of voter-ID laws to task in a piece that delineates the judicial fights under way in North Carolina, Texas and Kansas. The board says the proposed voter-ID laws in each state “have nothing to do with stopping the nonexistent threat of voter fraud and everything…