Tag: democracy
The rebuilding years begin now
So what’s the agenda for moving forward under the Biden-Harris administration?
It’s time to take America back from the brink
America needs to tend to the fragile health of its democracy and strive for a new shared prosperity that will shore up the nation’s foundation.
Despite flagrant assault on the Capitol, the pillars of democracy are...
A coup needs legitimacy to be successful. If the goal of seizing the Capitol was to gain legitimacy, the action backfired spectacularly.
Trump’s vilest legacy
Trump has brought impunity to the highest office in the land, wielding a wrecking ball to the most precious windowpane of all—American democracy.
Choose Democracy’s whirlwind effort to prevent a coup is a crash...
Being part of the team that trained 10,000 people to defend the election taught me five principles I want to practice going forward.
The most dangerous man in America
"Anyone can ride a train, only a wise man knows when to get off."
The rule of law & the recidivist in the White House
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.
Trump: It’s payback time for your betrayal of America and its...
Joe Biden may not become one of America’s greatest presidents, but he will go down in history as having saved this country from experiencing a monumental disaster, a second term for Trump.
Things may get worse before they get better for the U.S.
For many, Trump’s ouster is a relief. But his steadfast support among white voters puts his party on a crash course with democracy.
U.S. democracy: The four-year rule?
American democracy is in rough shape. It’s going to take more than this election to set it right.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.