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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.
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Is the US ‘truly one nation’?
It feels good to think so.
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Are Republicans heirs of Lenin?
Not quite, but the comparison is instructive.
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Our crisis is one of humility
Pride, shame, hate, violence, fascism -- all from the same source.
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The Republicans are taking their terror campaign to the next level
The Wisconsin GOP is mad about election officials following the law.
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In America, political violence is normal. So normal it's invisible
It should always be on people's minds.
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Biden’s policies are more popular than he is. For the first time in the modern era, the link between president and agenda is broken
How the press distorts political reality.
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Kyle Rittenhouse, Audre Lorde and the rage of righteousness
Still in search of democratic responsibility.