Tag: democracy

Which is why we have to keep up the fight even when feeling deeply discouraged.

In the first year since the end of the Trump administration, the United States is still in the throes of a struggle to overcome decades of political corruption and social neglect.

The biggest enemy of the basic democratic rights is the U.S. government—and yet we have this Biden conference declaring support for democracy.

The Biden administration’s democracy initiative is missing the all-important inequality connection.

"It's time for lawmakers of both parties in the Senate to take up the mantle and swiftly pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act. The integrity of our country's most powerful office is at stake."

A new report calls the rejection of the 2020 election results by many in the Republican Party as an “historic turning point” for the United States.

As a democracy, as active participants in a system of self-government, aren’t WE the government?

Thus far, however, Biden’s demonstrated negligible aptitude for restoring even an approximation of ordinariness to American life.

Republicans should heed Churchill’s warning about appeasing authoritarians: “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, it will eat him last.”

Congressional paralysis, voter suppression, and widespread political polarization all suggest that American democracy is far from exemplary.