As primaries roll out around the country, we’re tracking voter turnout. Raised on Schoolhouse Rock’s cartoon civics lessons, I know that being a good American means voting.
29 Jul, 2021
Perhaps the best possible thing we could acknowledge being is a “divided nation.” Failing to do so justifies — or at least avoids noticing — all manner of violent cruelty and repression in the name of so-called democracy, from the jailing of whistleblowers who reveal U.S. war crimes and global criminality, to the lynching of men and women of color . . . to the waging of endless war.
27 Nov, 2020
As Americans look forward to a new era without Donald Trump, one thing stands out:...
“As election 2020 draws ever closer, the flawed, easily gamed nature of the American quasi-democracy becomes increasingly visible, thanks, of...
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“Progressives hope for an America where health care is a human right for everyone — and women’s right to choose...
“In the 2018 election, America’s shrinking segment of white evangelicals mobilized strongly for the Republican Party – but the rising...
“One of the great things about being a small-town country lawyer is you get to meet so many “ordinary” Americans...
“While nonpartisan get-out-the-vote efforts are admirable and necessary for democracy as it is practiced in the United States, I am...
“When we speak of people from a particular identity group—ethnicity, nationality, regional group, state, town, or one of many others—we...
“I am an old millennial, one who just barely squeezes into the age category. I graduated high school in 2000....
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