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Want to end the Great Resignation? End the pandemic
It’s not a problem that can be solved by making the lives of poor and working people, and immigrants, more miserable.
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What would John Dewey think of today’s ‘education reform’?
He believed the function of school was not to turn out students as quality products, but to cultivate individual creativity and, most importantly, incubate citizens capable of life-long learning.
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Will the Democrats learn? When you think you're winning against bullshit, you’re actually losing
On covid, the Republicans are swiftboating Biden.
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Cheney hints at criminal charges for Trump in panel vote to hold Mark Meadows in contempt
But perhaps the biggest news was that the vote was televised.
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If last week’s carve-out to the filibuster rule can be done to raise the debt ceiling, it can be done to save democracy, too
Anoa Changa: the point of no return is fast approaching.
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Bob Dole's death inspired nostalgia among liberals for a time in politics that never was
It’s sounds nice, but it’s not true.
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America's future: less democracy nationally, more democracy locally, plus violence and blood
My interview with Sea Change Radio's Alex Wise.
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The good news is we’re on the cusp of a new way of ordering the American polity. The bad news? We could fall short
Thomas Zimmer: Multiracial democracy will be expanded or aborted.
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The midterms will be decided by swing voters ready to reward the GOP for trying to kill them
Why democracy is its own worst enemy.
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History doesn't care if the GOP is on the wrong side
Progress is a consequence of politics.
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Democracy isn't 'backsliding.' Equality is
Equality has been presumed in the word 'democracy' since the postwar era. We may not be able to presume that much longer.
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Post-Roe, American women will be separate and unequal
The United States will be a crazy-quilt of abortion laws in which some women have rights and some don’t, depending on where they live.