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Deroux Alexander articles

Deroux Alexander writes for Democracy Chronicles from New York City and is also an accomplished writer of fiction. Checkout the rest of our international team of authors as well. Together, they help cover free and fair elections on every continent with a focus on election reform in the United States.

Is It Time We Started Taxing Churches?

by Deroux Alexander - August 24, 2016

Taxing Churches

It is time we asked ourselves, “What would Jesus do?” Instead of asking a quarter of the population, who are not religious, to continue to subsidize religion isn’t it time we started taxing religious institutions in America?

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Political Lobbying, Religion and Democracy

Divide and Rule: A Failed Electoral System 

by Deroux Alexander - August 29, 2015

A Failed Electoral System

Since the beginning of recorded human history systems of hierarchy have been set up not only to control and keep the masses in their places, but to make men superior to women, one race superior to another, and the rich superior to the poor.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Citizens United, Democrats, George Orwell, Money Politics, Racism and Prejudice, Republicans

America’s Unfulfilled Promise of Equality Under Law

by Deroux Alexander - January 30, 2015

America's Unfulfilled Promise Marley

America is an unfulfilled promise, sitting on her potential. We have traded in reason for bullets of fear. There is little justice for us in life or in death, but they tell us to stick to the script, “You have a black president, what more do you want?”

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: African-Americans and Democracy, Education, Election History, Minority Voting Rights, Racism and Prejudice

Church and State: The Distance Between

by Deroux Alexander - January 8, 2014

The distance between church and state

Be it resolved that in America church and state must always be separate, because where all men (and women) are born equal, one religion cannot be held in higher regard than another.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Big Government, Election History, Founding Fathers, Minority Voting Rights, Religion and Democracy

The Life of Emmett Till: A Voice Crying for Justice

by Deroux Alexander - December 13, 2013

Remembering Emmett Till

Emmett Till’s voice deserves to be heard loud and clear in a 21st century America; an America that has backpedalled on her promises and has betrayed her citizenry as the urban youth still lay on the altar as sacrificial lamb.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: African-American Voting Rights, African-Americans and Democracy, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Era, Election History, Martin Luther King Jr., Minority Voting Rights, Racism and Prejudice, Voting Rights Act

What’s Going On? Marco Polo, Orwell and Income Equality

by Deroux Alexander - November 20, 2013

Animal Farm Equality

Our society is so far removed from the idea of empathy. We always put profits over people. Equality is empty rhetoric to the CEOs & policymakers of our land. Working 80 hours per week doesn’t even guarantee you a place in the middle class.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Capitalism and Big Business, Colonialism, Election History, George Orwell, Nelson Mandela, Socialism and Labor

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Florida Doesn’t Need a Speech Czar

By Steve Schneider June 28, 2022

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

By Jenna Spinelle June 25, 2022

Several activists and average citizens have changed their communities and the country by taking important issues directly to votes.

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Democracy’s Summer Blockbusters

By Jenna Spinelle June 8, 2022

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?

By Jenna Spinelle June 7, 2022

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

By Jenna Spinelle May 23, 2022

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

By Jamie Lampidis May 15, 2022

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

By Peter J. Dellolio May 11, 2022

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.

Goodbye Roe v. Wade, Goodbye Rule Of Law

By Andrew Straw May 5, 2022

Congress should impeach judges who act like that because it is not good behavior, and they were asked not to act that way when they were confirmed.

PODCAST: Debating The Future Of Debates

By Jenna Spinelle May 4, 2022

We love a good debate — and have certainly had plenty of them on this show. But how effective are they in today’s media and political landscape?

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India: Why Are Punjab Political Singers Under Attack?

India: Why Are Punjab Political Singers Under Attack?

June 8, 2022

The murder of Sidhu Moose Wala has brought attention to the link between Punjabi music and India’s cross-border criminal networks.

University Educated Less Likely To Endorse Authoritarianism

University Educated Less Likely To Endorse Authoritarianism

June 4, 2022

Higher education is now seen as a new political cleavage, with level of education increasingly important in describing political attitudes.

From Cake To Volunteers, Welcome To Australia’s Democracy Day

From Cake To Volunteers, Welcome To Australia’s Democracy Day

May 25, 2022

The atmosphere in the interstate polling booth in Sydney’s inner east resembled that of an emergency room waiting for a donor organ.

Kenyan 'Cartooning For Peace' To Draw Africa Towards Democracy

Kenyan ‘Cartooning For Peace’ To Draw Africa Towards Democracy

May 17, 2022

Cartooning is an art that has been playing a major role in illustrating stories in different ways, from health to politics, and even sports.

Anxious Leaders Influence Their Followers' Anxiety, Even Online

Anxious Leaders Influence Their Followers’ Anxiety, Even Online

May 17, 2022

Organizational leader’s tweets can influence employee anxieties and this effect is more prominent since the rise of COVID-19, study.

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