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Scuttling Senate Dress Code Diminishes Decorum When Our Politics Needs It Most Sep. 21, 2023
Congress is bickering as usual. A potential federal shutdown is looming. Public respect for the elec... Read More
Seeing Patterns ... and Refusing To Sep. 21, 2023
One of the characteristics of human vision and thought is the ability to identify patterns. Research... Read More
Romney and Others Speak Out, but Too Little, Too Late To Be Forgiven Sep. 20, 2023
At least a few Republican politicians and officeholders have fessed up to the role of their party an... Read More
Romney Exposes the Trumpian Rot Destroying the GOP From Inside Sep. 19, 2023
After a long and remarkable political career that included a governorship in one state, a U.S. Senat... Read More
Alabama, Wisconsin Provide Latest Examples of GOP's Anti-Democracy Obstinance Sep. 14, 2023
The determination of too many elected Republicans around the country to hold power by any underhande... Read More
Reckless Rhetoric Shows That Some Politicians Learned Nothing From Jan. 6. Sep. 13, 2023
Some people apparently learned nothing from Jan. 6, 2021, when the reckless rhetoric of a sitting pr... Read More
The Washington Post Is Clueless Aug. 24, 2023
A front-page story on Aug. 21 in The Washington Post sounds a false alarm: "American democracy is cr... Read More
Hawley, Schmitt Say Missouri Should Be Able To Vote on Abortion. Tell That to Their Party. Aug. 23, 2023
Both of Missouri's Republican U.S. senators last week endorsed the premise that the state's voters s... Read More
It's Time for Law School Grads To Promise To Pursue Justice Aug. 23, 2023
It turns out the brains behind the plan to steal the 2020 presidential election using fake electors ... Read More
'No Labels' Is the Right Idea at the Wrong Time Aug. 15, 2023
America's founders wanted to avoid what they called "factions" — what we call political partie... Read More
Curbing Your Rights, Canceling Your Tax Cuts Aug. 14, 2023
Colorado's Legislature can't seem to get past its contempt for the citizens initiative. That's the p... Read More
Democracy Is Delayed (Again) in Missouri, but Ohio Offers a Hopeful Path Aug. 11, 2023
What are they afraid of? That's the question that Missourians, Ohioans and Americans everywhere shou... Read More
Trump Attacked the Core of Democracy. It's Urgent That Prosecutors Show It. Aug. 04, 2023
The famous question during the Watergate hearings half a century ago was, "What did the president kn... Read More
Who Will Keep Our Liberties Safe? Jul. 20, 2023
What if liberty and democracy are opposites? What if the principle underlying liberty is to restrain... Read More
Democrats' Assault on 'Our Democracy' Jul. 07, 2023
At least as far back as the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January 2017 and the "Women's ... Read More
The Roberts Court: Something Rotten Under the Robes Jul. 05, 2023
Picture us as peasants in medieval Europe again. We have no human rights, a concept far in the futur... Read More
Grassroots Action Is Shoving States Into Action on Child Care Jul. 05, 2023
Two pieces of good advice: "Never sign nothin' by neon," and "Never negotiate with snakes." But Pres... Read More
The Supreme Court Forces a Reckoning for Women Jun. 21, 2023
WASHINGTON — We lost the war on women, ever since the days of groovy Gloria Steinem as the lea... Read More
The Best of the Worst: Republicans for President Jun. 14, 2023
As Donald Trump grimly faces the first federal criminal indictment ever handed down to a president, ... Read More
Theocracy's Foot in the Door Jun. 01, 2023
When the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled, in effect, that a high school football coach who led hi... Read More
