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Articles by DC Authors
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Confessions of a Volunteer Attorney For the Hillary Campaign
I feel a very personal failing here: Did I not work hard enough at Clinton High Command in Brooklyn? Should I have volunteered more hours manning the phones? What about our ”Wonderful ground game?”
JFK’s Advice For This Hour Of Change And Challenge
People everywhere understand that although the system that’s been in place for roughly a century has created amazing science, technology, medicine, and arts, it has run its course.
India Playing With Money, Playing With Lives
For a country trying to move forward, lift millions out of poverty, and attract investment, this abrupt collective punishment is a sad presage of India’s future under P.M. Modi.
A Blueprint To Good Presidential Elections
A presidential election with approval voting would be completely unlike what you’ve seen. Being able to choose as many candidates as you want permits you to always vote your favorite. No matter what.
The Numbers Behind Major Candidate Twitter Followers
Twitter and Facebook should come up with programs that allow users to easily find out which other users are fake and which ones are real. This is the only way to display an accurate statistic as to how popular the candidates actually are
Every Vote Counts, Brick by Brick
We will not be able to change our inane and archaic immigration system unless you and I stand up to change things, from the bottom up. So please, go out and VOTE tomorrow, and take your proper ID.
Hillary Clinton: The (Wo)man in the Moon
Electing a woman as the United States president regardless of the actual ramifications, is definitely a wrinkle in history. After all it’s been over 100 years since activists and reformers won women’s suffrage rights
The President’s New Clothes
This is a vitally important drama and those who don’t care, and don’t perceive the serious and profoundly democratic rationale for this lack that serious and deferential respect for the most precious jewels in our western world’s crown
A Visit to the Trump Presidential Library and Casino in 2017
The Trump Presidential Library and Casino looks like it did the day he opened it, unusually early in March 2017. There are faux ionic columns, a huge gold spray-paint 1980s-font title above the door, and an attached Presidential Golf Course