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
Articles by DC Authors
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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
Ossipoff’s Pre-Election Day Reminder
So, how to vote? The best, appropriate and effective vote is to boycott the illegitimate elections and to demand verifiable vote-counting in big pro-democracy demonstrations all across the country.
Trumpy Thrilla from Manila: President Duterte
Sometimes blips on the diplomatic radar far away can be prescient of larger things to come. In the Philippines, things are happening, and they’re worth taking note of for the psychology of the country’s President Duterte.
Truth, Deception, and the Legacy of I.F. Stone
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Legacy of I.F. Stone is a theatrical documentary created by a team of Emmy Award-winning filmmakers, who subscribed to I. F. Stone’s newsletter in their teens.
The 2016 Gabon Post Election Crisis
Gabon is one of only two countries in the Central African sub-region that has not experienced armed civil conflict since gaining independence. But what explains the recent post-election violence?
Just moved? Lost Your ID? The Affidavit Ballot is Your Friend
Registrations are lost, people move at the last minute, or IDs are forgotten or unavailable. Because countless folks think they can’t vote, they don’t, when actually they can. The bureaucracy moves slower than the individual lives of citizens.
Saviors For the GOP and the Islamic Religion
The damage ISIS, Al-Shabab and their kind has done to Islam continues to worsen. Our scholars’ silence has been an approval of the multiple cults that now compete for the chance to establish themselves
The New Devil or the One We Know
Western-style Government is fundamentally based on the premise that power should be based on the people. But maybe this is an outdated view. Today, society is much more complex.