March 30, 2021
BY Heather Cox Richardson | April 7, 2021 | Letters From an American
It feels like the banking under the Republican Party from the Trump years is starting to erode. Read More
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Stop Attacks on Asian-Americans NOW!
BY BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM | March 30, 2021 | History
Over the past weeks the US has seen a growing number of attacks on Asian-Americans. Those who perpetrate them should learn a little about history and a lot about our democracy. Read More
Justice on Trial
BY Heather Cox Richardson | March 30, 2021 | Letters From an American
Prosecutors showed a 9-minute 29-second video of the murder, and told jurors to “believe your eyes.” Read More
Silencing Black Voters, Again
BY Heather Cox Richardson | March 29, 2021 | Letters From an American
Today, Republicans talk about “election integrity,” but their end game is the same as that of the former Confederates after the war: to keep Black and Brown Americans away from the polls to make sure the government does not spend tax dollars on public services. Read More
America’s Longest War Winds Down
BY Andrew Bacevich | March 29, 2021 | Democracy & Government
No bang, no whimper, no victory. Read More
US Sinks to New Low in Rankings of World’s Democracies
BY Sam Levine | March 29, 2021 | Letters From an American
The US has slipped 11 points in a decade – below Argentina and Mongolia – according the latest report by a democracy watchdog. Read More
The Southern System
BY Heather Cox Richardson | March 27, 2021 | Letters From an American
March 26, 2021 Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed his state’s new voter suppression law last night in a carefully staged photo op. As journalist Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer pointed out, Kemp sat at a polished table, with six white men around him, under a painting of the Callaway Plantation on which more than 100 Black people had been enslaved. As the men bore witness to the signing, Representative Park Cannon, a Black female lawmaker, was arrested and dragged away from the governor’s office. It was a scene that conjured up a lot of history. Voting was on the table in March 1858, ... Read More
Voting Rights IS Democracy
BY Heather Cox Richardson | March 26, 2021 | Letters From an American
This is the only story from today because it is the only story historians will note from this era: Did Americans defend their democracy or did they fall to oligarchy? Read More
"He wants us to make it WILD"
BY Heather Cox Richardson | March 25, 2021 | Letters From an American
The former president not only inspired his supporters to fight for him; he urged them to send money to defend his election in the courts. Read More
The Shadow Network (Council for National Policy) Is Not Going Away
BY Anne Nelson | March 24, 2021 | Moyers on Democracy
Five years ago, at the dawn of the Trump era, few national observers were focused on the role of the Council for National Policy. That was not a coincidence; over the past four decades, this coalition of Christian nationalists and fossil fuel interests has deliberately kept a low public profile, maintaining both its meetings and its membership under a veil of secrecy. Although it is registered with the IRS as a tax-exempt “educational” organization, it has advanced an unapologetically partisan agenda, promoting Republican candidates from the radical right and purging moderates. Key to its success is the expansion of its ... Read More
Will There Be a Real Discussion on Gun Control?
BY Heather Cox Richardson | March 24, 2021 | Letters From an American
The unfettered right to own and carry weapons has come to symbolize the Republican Party’s ideology of individual liberty. Lawmakers and activists have not been able to overcome Republican insistence on gun rights despite the mass shootings occurring with a greater frequency. Read More
