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  • Moyers on Democracy
    What America Could Have Been
    May 25, 2020
    | Jeremy Gerard

    The coronavirus epidemic will have a lasting worldwide impact, to be sure, but it will have a unique native social impact as well, one equal to those brought about by the upheavals of the 1960s and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Already it’s changed the way we see ourselves, and our nationhood.

  • Democracy & Government
    A Historian Speaks to the Current Moment
    March 14, 2020
    | Bernard Weisberger

    It is time, fellow Americans, to remember the warning of the great journalist Edward R. Murrow: “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Let us together become the coalition of generations that closes the gates to the wolves ready to devour our freedoms.

  • Editor's Desk
    Bill Moyers Responds: What Would Joseph Campbell Think?
    February 11, 2020
    | Bill Moyers

    A Facebook member responded to our recent post Bill Moyers and Steve Harper on Lawyers, Liars and Trump on Trial with a question: Bill Moyers responds: I don’t know what in particular Joseph Campbell would say about our situation today. But I can imagine him lamenting, as he did when we talked some 30 years ago, our failure “to admit within ourselves the carnivorous, lecherous fever that is endemic to human nature.” Malevolent greed was on the ...

  • Activism
    A 15-Point Guide to Surviving Authoritarianism
    December 15, 2017
    | Kali Holloway and Martin Mycielski
    Rule #1: Always think critically and fight ignorance with facts.
  • Democracy & Government
    Why the Trump Era Won't Pass Without Serious Damage to America
    December 13, 2017
    | Neal Gabler
    Conservatism has turned itself into a civic religion and columnist Neal Gabler fears the damages wrought in the Trump era will be permanent and lasting.
  • Democracy & Government
    America the Banana Republic
    November 29, 2017
    | Neal Gabler
    Thanks to Trump the tinhorn dictator and those who elected him, this country is no longer a beacon of freedom, but a laughingstock.
  • Society
    How Social Media Abet the Political Right
    October 25, 2017
    | Neal Gabler
    Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and many others have become a mechanism now for channeling our discontents.
  • Democracy & Government
    Frederick Wiseman on 'Ex Libris — New York Public Library'
    October 12, 2017
    | Titi Yu
    In this fantastic documentary, the celebrated filmmaker takes us inside a critically important institution for our democracy.
  • History
    Orwell and Churchill on Resisting Authoritarianism
    September 27, 2017
    | Steven Rosenfeld
    Thomas Ricks' book is the latest offering history's lessons for our dangerous time.
  • Inequality
    Here's Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
    September 7, 2017
    | Zephyr Teachout
    Can our constitution co-exist with extremes of economic inequality?


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