Search Results: no one is above the law

When it comes to slavery, the past isn’t past

By Mia Brett / January 13, 2022 /

We aren’t just fighting the historical legacy of slavery, but also the current political system that was always meant to uphold it.

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The United States needs a ‘sociological imagination’

By Rod Graham / January 6, 2022 /

“Character” and “individual virtue” are not going to solve our problems.

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Cheney hints at criminal charges for Trump in panel vote to hold Mark Meadows in contempt

By John Stoehr / December 13, 2021 /

But perhaps the biggest news was that the vote was televised.

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The midterms will be decided by swing voters ready to reward the GOP for trying to kill them

By John Stoehr / December 7, 2021 /

Why democracy is its own worst enemy.

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Abate lead, reduce crime, defund police?

By Noah Berlatsky / November 16, 2021 /

An excellent potential approach.

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It’s time to overthrow the gerontocracy

By Matt Robison / November 5, 2021 /

There’s a reason we never talk about these things out loud: the counterattacks and accusations seem devastating.

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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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