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Democracy’s Summer Blockbusters
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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?
What “Pro-Palestine” Student Groups Get Wrong
Back then – as now – this fit into a “colonialist” narrative of European Jews oppressing Arabs – an easy, eye pleasing but intellectually lazy fit.
Examining Government As A “Necessary Evil”
Thomas Paine defines government as separate from society, and indeed if society functioned perfectly there would be no need for government.