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Democracy & Government
  • Democracy & Government
    Georgia Voters Are Waiting Hours to Cast Ballots, in a Bad Omen for November
    June 11, 2020
    | Noah Lanard

    Thousands of Georgians had their registrations put on hold and weren’t sure if they’d be able to vote. Some voters were wrongly flagged as non-citizens; others had their ballots rejected because poll workers told them they had the wrong ID. Hundreds of polling places were shuttered before the election, and other precincts had four-hour lines. Absentee ballots were rejected because of signature mismatches or other minor errors.

  • Letters From an American
    Trump's Campaign Ramps Up
    June 11, 2020

    It seems that the lines of Trump’s election campaign are solidifying — poll rage, praising the Confederacy and COVID-19 denial.

  • 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."

  • Letters From an American
    One Man's Protestor is the President's Agent Provocateur
    June 9, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The day started with Trump tweeting that the 75-year-old Buffalo, New York, man shoved to the ground by police and left bleeding and unconscious “could be an ANTIFA provocateur” who might have been part of a “set up.”

  • Democracy & Government
    Their Elliot Richardson Moment
    June 8, 2020
    | David Berg
    Esper and Miley: Too Little, Too Late
  • Democracy & Government
    Save the Post Office — Save the Vote
    June 8, 2020
    | Jake Bittle
    The post office could be key to people voting during the pandemic but perverse financial rules and Trump’s hostility put that at risk
  • Letters From an American
    Changing the Media Narrative
    June 8, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Trump and the GOP are trying to change the poll numbers because they have lost control over the country’s narrative. The president rode to the White House on the argument that people of color and women were criminal socialists demanding a government handout, paid for by taxes on hardworking white men, but all of a sudden, with white police officers murdering a handcuffed Black man, and police riots during protests over that killing, it is ...

  • Letters From an American
    Everything Has Changed, But Nothing Has Changed...
    June 7, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    In the past two weeks, everything has changed… and nothing has changed. Two weeks ago tonight, 46-year-old Minneapolis man George Floyd was alive, going through his Sunday night as any one of us do, unaware—as we all are—of what the next day would bring.

  • Civil Liberties
    Opinion: Why I Am Angry
    June 5, 2020
    | Jeremy Butler
    I’m a Navy officer. I’m a nonprofit CEO. I’m a black man in America.
  • Letters From an American
    Secreting Behind the Barricades in the "People's House"
    June 4, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Protests continued for a tenth day today in the face of ongoing police brutality. That statement is going to anger some readers, but hoo, boy, the images of the police attacking peaceful protesters and journalists are going to be in textbooks in a few years, and our great grandchildren are going to ask how on earth this happened.



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