Author Central - Highlighting the Democracy Chronicles author team

Democracy Chronicles Author Central is where we feature our team of authors from around the world and DC Editor-in-Chief Adrian Tawfik. See the full list of their articles here. We are looking for creative new contributors so please get in touch if you would like to write for DC.

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Democracy Chronicles is the product of a network of democracy focused authors, artists, activists, and contributors from around the globe.

Here at Author Central you can take a look at the original articles and access the biographies of our international team of authors. If you click their names above you will be taken to their full biography and article archive.

You can also take a look at our Political Art page for political artists of all kinds that highlights the original work of numerous Democracy Chronicles authors.

We are actively looking for creative new contributors to join our team. If you or someone you know is interested in contributing please get in touch. We are expanding and we want to hear from people from all kind of backgrounds and perspectives.

Republican Party or Green Party, in Brooklyn or Bangladesh, we are looking for people who want to join the democracy fight. Also, see the full list of articles by our writers.

A New Approach To Breaking Our Media Silos (8/12/2022) by Jenna Spinelle - It’s no secret that there’s a partisan divide in the media, but thus far, solutions to bridge that divide have been few and far between.
Carmel’s Cautionary Tale for Post-Roe America (8/10/2022) by Joe Mathews - The lesson is about... the human horrors of letting judges, or anyone else, determine our rights on the basis of history - especially when history omits so much.
New Tech Helps Citizens Audit The Vote (8/9/2022) by Steve Schneider - Rebuilding trust in our democracy would require high-quality verification in the form of audits that will stand up in the court of public opinion.
2022: Year Of Radical Change For Camp Lejeune Justice (8/4/2022) by Andrew Straw - Indiana has been a purple state dominated and oppressed by Republicans who stack every deck in their own favor, all three branches.
Here At The Crossroads, To Lead Or Be Led (8/1/2022) by Jack Jones - We will only have a chance to save our imperiled democracy if we work to reverse discriminatory laws like Citizens United.
Laboratories Against Democracy (7/25/2022) by Jenna Spinelle - Jake Grumbach’s book “Laboratories against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics” is out now from Princeton University Press.
Mass Shootings: Time To Ramp Up Citizen Action (7/20/2022) by Jack Jones - Those controlling the levers of power need to be confronted on these issues and made uncomfortable enough so that they can act.
Harnessing The Power Of “We The People” On Independence Day (7/3/2022) by Jenna Spinelle - Democracy does not have a singular definition, which is one of the things that makes it so interesting to me — and undoubtedly to many of you.

Florida Doesn’t Need a Speech Czar (6/28/2022) by Steve Schneider - Full disclosure: I’m a liberal Democrat. So, I won’t be sending in my vote-by-mail ballot for Ron DeSantis in November. Nor will I vote for him in 2024.
Introducing: When The People Decide (6/25/2022) by Jenna Spinelle - Several activists and average citizens have changed their communities and the country by taking important issues directly to votes.
Democracy’s Summer Blockbusters (6/8/2022) by Jenna Spinelle - The summer will be legally and politically charged particularly with the January 6 committee hearings scheduled to begin June 9.
Can American Democracy Have Nice Things? (6/7/2022) by Jenna Spinelle - Universal voting would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the active disenfranchisement of a large share of our citizens.
PODCAST: Baby Boomers And American Gerontocracy (5/23/2022) by Jenna Spinelle - Older and younger voters are increasingly at odds: Republicans as a whole skew gray-haired, and within the Democratis, the left-leaning youth vote.
A Dangerous Reprise Of American Exceptionalism In Ukraine (5/15/2022) by Jamie Lampidis - The stakes are too high to cave into Putin's phantasmatic imperial play, and too high to believe that this war can be won by arming Ukrainians.
On The Coming End Of Roe v. Wade (5/11/2022) by Peter J. Dellolio - Anyone who says that the evolution of law has nothing to do with politics is either very corrupt or very stupid. Laws evolved through the centuries.

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