Tag: democracy

The dread now transcends democracy,/ But what survives kakistocracy?

Is the United States heading toward a hard landing?

The cost for shunning what Jesus begot –/ Lip service that cracks our melting pot.

A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.

A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.

A new proposal to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices has reignited national debate over ethics scandals, partisan rulings, and the growing concentration of power inside the nation’s highest court.

A Reuters investigation has revealed a widening federal push into state election systems, with demands for voter records, scrutiny of voting equipment, and revived fraud probes fueling warnings about intimidation, disenfranchisement, and executive overreach.

When governments depend on internal taxation, bargaining is required. Taxes are not simply extracted; they are negotiated, enforced, justified, and institutionalized.

How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.

Cover the election, not just the candidates.