Tag: democracy
Protect the filibuster or preserve our democracy, which shall it be?
The time for procrastination is over. What shall it be, protect the filibuster or preserve our democracy?
Saving democracy by destroying it
America desperately needs a dose of its own medicine of democracy promotion.
The media bias no one is talking about
Today it’s democracy versus authoritarianism, voting rights versus white supremacy.
Why did a military superpower fail in Afghanistan?
This external approach, based on military occupation, to promote democracy in occupied foreign countries was “doomed to fail.”
Preventing an American Pinochet
Our democracy is too precious to throw away for partisan gain.
Why aren’t Biden and the democrats going all out for democracy?
If democracy is to be preserved, both parts of the anti-democracy coalition must be stopped.
Targeting dark money attacking democracy, watchdog files FEC complaint against 23...
"The vast scope of this illegal concealment should prompt swift investigation and a firm crackdown by the FEC."
The GOP is trying to outlaw democracy
The goal (and duty) of every public official ought to be maximizing voter turnout—after all, the more Americans vote, the stronger our democracy.
As republicans stall election reform in the US Senate, democracy comes...
Both parties are vying to change who votes and how ballots are cast.
We can have the filibuster or democracy, but not both
The warning from democracy advocates is clear: Kill the filibuster and pass the For the People Act, or our democracy won’t survive.
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The fuel to my revolutionary optimism
As distant as it may seem, I am only two generations removed from the 1948 Catastrophe of Palestine, where over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land, and thousands were massacred.