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It's a massive election year around the world too — and democracy may be losing

Nearly half the world’s population live in countries that will hold national elections this year, the largest such proportion in more than a...

14.04.2024 30

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Could parliamentary democracy save America?

The subtitle of Maxwell L. Stearns' new book, “Parliamentary America,” is critical: “The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken...

10.03.2024 30

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Today's Supreme Court is a threat to democracy — but activists plan to fight back

The Supreme Court is a supreme threat to American democracy. That was Abraham Lincoln’s view in light of the Dred Scott decision, expressed in his...

03.03.2024 40

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Rachel Bitecofer's tough-love lesson for Democrats: Time to fight dirty

America’s future — as a multiracial democracy or an ethno-nationalist authoritarian state — is very much on the ballot this year, as a wide...

17.02.2024 20

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Swing Left fights for the future: "One-stop shopping" for progressive wins in 2024 and beyond

Swing Left was launched in 2017, as the first Women's March dwarfed the crowd at Donald Trump's inauguration. Its immediate goal was winning back the...

28.01.2024 10

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Reactionary centrism: The toxic force that could elect Trump — and kill off democracy

Donald Trump is crushing his opponents in polls of Republican voters, and will likely do the same as the caucuses and primaries begin this week....

14.01.2024 30

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Meet the New Apostolic Reformation, cutting edge of the Christian right

Lance Wallnau’s book, “God’s Chaos Candidate” played a significant role in solidifying evangelical support for Donald Trump in 2016, brushing...

02.01.2024 40

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Did the Confederates have a point, kind of? Here's a hint: not really

There’s no doubt that Australian law professor Peter Radan breaks new ground in his book “Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union.” The...

16.12.2023 7

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When a liberal president goes to war: Lessons of the LBJ era are relevant today

Hey! Hey! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today? – Antiwar chant, circa 1967 I was among the hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of young...

19.11.2023 8

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Lies, damned lies and "corporate bulls**t": A consumer's guide to bad-faith arguments

Corporate bullshit is everywhere around us, like the atmosphere of capitalism. I don't just mean advertisements for specific commodities, although...

29.10.2023 7

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What if they're not crazy? Belief in conspiracy theories may be normal

At least since the publication of Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," belief in conspiracy theories has been seen as an...

21.10.2023 10

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Leftists, save yourselves! It's a bad moment for nihilistic self-indulgence

Dr. Anthony Fauci has generously said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not "inherently malicious," while describing him as "a very disturbed individual."...

30.09.2023 4

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How liberalism sabotaged itself: Are Cold War intellectuals to blame?

"Cold War liberalism was a catastrophe — for liberalism," Yale historian Samuel Moyn argues in his new book "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War...

17.09.2023 6

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