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  • Letters From an American
    American Democracy Has Never Been Perfect
    January 6, 2021
    Once you give up the principle of equality before the law, you have given up the whole game.
  • Democracy & Government
    The Lucrative Afterlife of a Trump Official
    December 2, 2020
    | Jonathan Guyer
    Trump’s former appointees are profiting from their time in the White House—H.R. McMaster most of all.
  • Fight to Vote
    29 Ways Trump and the GOP Are Making It Harder to Vote
    October 5, 2020
    | Ari Berman and AJ
    Republicans are doing all they can to preserve their power at the expense of the democratic process.
  • Moyers on Democracy
    Bill Talks with Heather Cox Richardson About 'How the South Won the Civil War'
    July 30, 2020
    Yes, the Civil War brought an end to the slave order of the South and the rule of the plantation oligarchs who embodied white supremacy. But the Northern victory was short lived — Southern ideals spread quickly to the West. It's all about America’s ongoing battle between oligarchy and democracy.
  • Media
    How Fake News Works
    November 8, 2017
    | David Masciotra
    Russian fake news infiltrated our social-media feeds, and our own willful ignorance is to blame.
  • Inequality
    How Inequality Threatens Our Democracy
    March 24, 2017
    | Kristin Miller
    The framers envisioned a strong middle class to ground our republic. If it disappears, does our democracy go with it?
  • Activism
    Turning Progressive Activism Into a Winning Social Movement
    March 24, 2017
    | Astra Taylor
    Why the left needs to build power, now.
  • Society
    A Tale of Two Countries
    January 25, 2017
    | Neal Gabler
    We are now engaged not only in a political war, but also in a battle over the very concepts of reason and fact that the Enlightenment brought forth.
  • Today's Uncertain Future Calls for Patience
    January 30, 2015
    | Andrew Bacevich
    Those in the upper ranks of the Obama administration have an outdated worldview, shaped by memories of Munich and Yalta, Korea and Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin Wall.
  • The Rise and Fall of the US Government
    January 10, 2015
    | John J. Dilulio, Jr.
    While other conservatives say that the American state has become too powerful, Francis Fukuyama argues that it has grown too weak.


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