Trumpism Has Brought Democracy to Its Knees
In what we can only hope is its terminal phase, the Trump administration is doing everything it can to make a mockery of American democracy.
In what we can only hope is its terminal phase, the Trump administration is doing everything it can to make a mockery of American democracy.
“When I ponder the likelihood of looming electoral chaos — uncounted votes, a defeated president who won’t leave office…” Robert...
“Gene Sharp called it a self-coup. Sharp was arguably the most influential theorist in the field of nonviolent social movement...
“As election 2020 draws ever closer, the flawed, easily gamed nature of the American quasi-democracy becomes increasingly visible, thanks, of...
“A bad app in Iowa throws everything into a tizzy. Who won? Come on, the horse race has begun. Let’s...
“With the end of the Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump the partisan divide is deepened and acquittal a mere formality…”...
“The war in Afghanistan, America’s longest, has cost about 2,300 US lives, over 20,000 wounded, and about $1 trillion. Now,...
“”Donald Trump lost the election because he veered so far off course from what it means to be a decent...
“Imagine for a moment that political discussions can assume the same evidence-based knowledge as active components in decision making as...
“Perhaps the most damaging legacy of the Trump years is the disservice he and his associates are doing to Americans’...
“America is “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” It is also the province of the...
“Reparations for slavery? Upending militarism and waging peace? Taking climate change seriously? Getting carbon out of the atmosphere and fossil...
“[Editor’s note: The Man from the North is a fictional character from Rivera Sun’s first series of novels. She has...
“This year Cambridge Scholar Publishers issued a book edited by Barry University professor Laura Finley and me, Trumpism: The Politics...
“When we speak of people from a particular identity group—ethnicity, nationality, regional group, state, town, or one of many others—we...