Black History Month is an opportunity to look to our past for lessons on our future path to justice, economic security and stronger democracy everyone deserves. We see time and again that you cannot ...

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Is American democracy going to be OK? You hear this question asked regularly around the country these days. There is a national and worldwide narrative that American democracy is in persistent decline ...

Thirty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread belief that democracy would rapidly spread to envelop the whole world. Now we’re worried about whether democracy can survive ...

History is hardly a straight road towards democracy. Deprioritising it is a democratic error. Democratic societies need ...

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I was saddened as I read the recent letter from J. Paul Brown, who was a legislator at one point. Perhaps Mr. Brown doesn’t know the difference between citizens sharing their points of view and a ...

First read, then consider, and then act. Democracy and meaningful discourse require a little work. And if you are not willing to do a little work, then you are letting others do the work for you and ...

For many travellers, the first clues about a country’s political system appear long before sightseeing begins. A portrait of a king in an airport, a presidential seal on immigration forms, or a ...

An interesting e-mail about health care reform has been making the rounds over the past few weeks. It doesn’t provide any great insight into the bill it purports to analyze, H.R. 3200, or contain any ...