Jim Sleeper: How Yale Molded the Cold War Mentality and Leadership
Jim Sleeper is a journalist and alumnus of Yale, as well as a lecturer there. He published an enlightening article about the role of Yale...
Category : Democracy
Ashley Parker: A Worst-Case Scenario for Democracy
Ashley Parker writes for the Washington Post. She wrote this ominous article. A year before the 2020 election, about two dozen constitutional scholars and democracy...
Spencer Bokat-Lindell: Will Our Democracy Die in 2024?
Spencer Bokat-Lindell, a staff writer at the New York Times, echoes growing fear that democracy in America is at risk. He writes: Nearly nine months...
New Hampshire: Rabid Protestors Attack Democracy
It’s happening across the nation: Angry anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are undermining democracy, science, and civil society. They are disrupting school board meetings, town council meetings,...
Nancy MacLean: “School Choice” Was Created to Protect Segregation
Duke historian Nancy MacLean, author of the superb Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, wrote recently in...
Jeremy Mohler: Don’t Make Fun of Anti-Maskers: Try to Educate Them
Jeremy Mohler of the nonpartisan, anti-privatization organization called “In the Public Interest,” opposes ridiculing anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers. He thinks that those who support science should...
Billy Townsend: GOP Candidate for Mayor Promises to Ban “Marxists” and George Soros from Lakeland, Florida
Billy Townsend zeroes in on Lakeland, Florida’s mayoral campaign to illustrate how far off the rails the Republican Party has gone. The Republican candidate is...
UnKochMy Campus: Send a Message
The organization called “UnKoch My Campus” does a great job of tracking and exposing the influence of billionaire Charles Koch in schools and higher education....
Oakland: Activists Win Six-Figure Settlement, which They Will Use to Fight Privatization
I am posting this notice after the press conference described here, but the details are important nevertheless. A group called Oakland Not For Sale formed...