Yes, we pay a lot for healthcare. That doesn’t make healthcare spending a tax, let alone a poll tax. Yet that’s the argument put forward by two world-renowned economists in the Washington Post.

Web Exclusive Righting a Wrong The 24th amendment prohibiting the poll tax on voters has been formally approved by the state of Texas—more than four decades later.

Tony Torres, who grew up in the 1950s, remembers seeing his parents scramble to gather money, simply to pay a poll tax to vote. “My parents raised a family of eight, and it was not easy making a ...

For supporters of voting restrictions, opposition to voter-ID laws seems practically inexplicable. After all, they argue, having an ID is a common part of modern American life, and if these laws ...