Search Results: no one is above the law

This is what the Republican Party does so well. It exploits white supremacy to divide and conquer a republican union

By John Stoehr / November 3, 2021 /

What are we going to do now? 

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To fight fascism, fight the people paying for it. That means raising taxes higher, much higher, on the very obscenely rich

By John Stoehr / September 30, 2021 /

They are preventing the people from flexing the sovereignty that would prevent them from continuing to extract wealth from the people.

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Why we can’t quit polling

By Matt Robison / September 29, 2021 /

Our love of public opinion surveys and data science reflects an aspect of American politics that’s at least skewed, at most broken.

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The battle over race is the cancer afflicting American civic health

By Rev. Daniel Schultz / August 17, 2021 /

Everything in politics has come to revolve around the question of whether the society should be governed b a white Christian minority.

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Anti-vaxxers are covering up their bad choices with ‘freedom of choice.’ Don’t let them

By John Stoehr / August 10, 2021 /

They discredit themselves when they cite “reasons” for refusing to get vaccinated. Yet we keep on trusting them. That’s dangerous.

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Here’s what I hope liberals like Michelle Goldberg understand about the American authoritarian mind

By John Stoehr / July 21, 2021 /

Loneliness is the beginning, not the end.

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The will of the American people is becoming less important than the will of a Republican high court

By John Stoehr / July 1, 2021 /

In its latest ruling, SCOTUS internalizes Donald Trump’s Big Lie.

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Reasons for hard political hope

By John Stoehr / June 14, 2021 /

A lesson from Ralph Ellison

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Though they lost the fight over the Constitution, the Anti-Federalists saw its most dangerous defects

By Christopher Jon Sprigman / May 10, 2021 /

Time for a respectful reassessment, writes Christopher Jon Sprigman

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The very rich are overruling democratic progress. That should renew the old American contempt

By John Stoehr / May 5, 2021 /

Americans used to reject the idea of nobility. We haven’t for a long time.

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