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Cheney hints at criminal charges for Trump in panel vote to hold Mark Meadows in contempt

By John Stoehr / December 13, 2021 /

But perhaps the biggest news was that the vote was televised.

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He was set to testify about a PowerPoint outlining step-by-step Trump’s failed coup. Then Mark Meadows chickened out

By Lindsay Beyerstein / December 9, 2021 /

He’s invoking privilege he doesn’t have.

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America’s future: less democracy nationally, more democracy locally, plus violence and blood

By John Stoehr / December 9, 2021 /

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

By John Stoehr / December 8, 2021 /

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

By John Stoehr / December 7, 2021 /

Why democracy is its own worst enemy.

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History doesn’t care if the GOP is on the wrong side

By John Stoehr / December 6, 2021 /

Progress is a consequence of politics. 

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Your friendly neighborhood sociologist: What we talk about when we talk about white supremacy

By Rod Graham / December 1, 2021 /

It’s not what it used to be.

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Are Republicans heirs of Lenin?

By John Stoehr / November 29, 2021 /

Not quite, but the comparison is instructive.

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Our crisis is one of humility

By John Stoehr / November 24, 2021 /

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

By Lindsay Beyerstein / November 23, 2021 /

The Wisconsin GOP is mad about election officials following the law.

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