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  • Letters From an American
    Trump: "We're Going to Have to See What Happens"
    September 24, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    An Atlantic article rings the fire bell.
  • Moyers on Democracy
    SEPTEMBER 18, 2020: JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG HAS DIED
    September 18, 2020

    Bill Moyers sit down with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to discuss the most pressing global issues faced by present-day women leaders.

  • Letters From an American
    Democracy Under Attack
    September 7, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Earlier this week, New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo warned that American democracy is ending. He pointed to political violence on the streets, the pandemic, unemployment, racial polarization, and natural disasters, all of which are destabilizing the country, and …

  • Media
    The Failed Promise of “Objective” Political Reporting
    August 3, 2020
    | Dan Froomkin

    What if the mainstream, reality-based media armed its audience with facts as emphatically and effectively as Fox News arms its audience with misinformation? What if the New York Times aggressively advocated for the truth, rather than just putting it out there for the record?

  • Activism
    Resistance for Real: The Moment Has Come
    July 26, 2020
    | Jim Sleeper
    Channeling the Wall of Moms
  • Democracy & Government
    Outrage as Trump Crony Now Heading USPS Moves to Slow Mail Delivery
    July 17, 2020
    | Jake Johnson

    With the USPS at risk of completely running out of cash by the end of September without an infusion of emergency funding, postal workers and members of Congress have warned that the Trump administration could attempt to exploit the agency's financial struggles to advance the longstanding right-wing goal of privatizing USPS.

  • Democracy & Government
    Republicans Devote $20m to Efforts to Restrict Voting
    June 15, 2020
    | Sam Levine

    Donald Trump’s campaign and the GOP are pumping millions of dollars into efforts to restrict voting and aggressively fight Democratic efforts to make it easier to cast a ballot during the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Moyers on Democracy
    Watch Bill Moyers and Christiane Amanpour: 'Truth is the Oxygen of Democracy'
    June 10, 2020

    "Democracy was dying of too many lies long before this murder," Moyers tells Amanpour. "Unless we see the truth and act on it, we are going to run out of oxygen."

  • Democracy & Government
    A Chronicle of a Lost Decade Foretold
    June 1, 2020

    Many on the left still cling to the hope that the COVID-19 crisis will translate into the use of state power on behalf of the powerless. But those in authority have never hesitated to harness government intervention to the preservation of oligarchy, and a pandemic alone won't change that.

  • Letters From an American
    The Lights Are Off in the White House
    May 31, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    In all this confusion, it feels like the lines are becoming clearer between those determined to reclaim fairness and equality before the law in America, and those determined to destroy civil society altogether.


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