While most media attention is on the presidential circus, candidates for statewide and local offices have raked in massive amounts of campaign donations.
When Trump says that Hillary Clinton is “the devil” and America’s going to hell, much of his constituency — steeped in biblical prophecy, survivalist ideology and racist conspiracies — takes him literally.
Neal Gabler calls out the media for being lazy on Hillary Clinton's Lincoln reference in the second debate and cheers for a conservative columnist's principled critique of the Republican ticket.
A citizen-centered view of democracy emphasizing the agency of the people was widespread in the civil rights movement and is emerging again in the 21st century.