10 Jan, 2023
It’s Time to Abolish the Filibuster
The filibuster has proved more pernicious to democracy than any other procedural rule of Congress. It’s time for it to go.
10 Jan, 2023
25 Jan, 2022
Integrity MIA
If you look at how polls and politics are shaping up, it is shamefully obvious that Republicans, in general, simply do not represent what most Americans say they want.
6 Nov, 2021
Vote back better
My Dad skated for the Minnesota Gophers hockey team after he finally got done serving “for the duration” in World War II in the Philippines. So, of course, he was our coach as we PeeWees tried to learn to play hockey in Minnesota in the late 1950s. As a coach, one of his favorite go-to instructions to us was, “OK, team, back to the basics!”...
11 Mar, 2021
Voter suppression: Jim Crow revisited
Ever since its founding, the United States has been attempting to build a society around those wounds, on the belief that hyped-up language...
5 Mar, 2021
Where We Are and Where We’re Headed
Where We Are and Where We’re Headed by Mel Gurtov 534 words Published in: City Watch LA, LA Progressive, Black...
11 Feb, 2021
Stealing the vote, building a wall
Stealing the vote, building a wall by Robert C. Koehler 936 words Published in: LA Progressive, Black Star News, City...
13 Oct, 2020
Memories of Voter Suppression
Back in July 1962, when, according to Donald Trump, America was “great,” I was in the Deep South, working to register Black voters. It was a near-hopeless project, given the mass disenfranchisement of the region’s Black population that was enforced by Southern law and white terrorism...
28 May, 2019
Politicizing a woman’s body
“That’s the uber-message quietly emerging from the new anti-abortion laws recently passed in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio and Missouri, no matter...
9 Apr, 2016
Democracy Free-For-All
“Here in America, we celebrate democracy by staying in touch with the lack of it. What better way to honor...