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Celebrate freedom
Look with humility and graciousness to Black leaders and Black voices to understand and engage in the conversations and reckonings necessary to celebrate Juneteenth.
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Is the EPA meant to confront climate change or not?
When the Supreme Court extends beyond its own expansive reach, not only are the basic functions of government in jeopardy but so is our system of checks and balances.
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Learning while doing during the primaries
Is San Francisco's recall of their progressive district attorney revealing something important about the state of liberalism?
Weekend Edition: They cannot be shamed
History, culture, suffering, and how we might begin to find our way to a safer, freer future.
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What do we mean when we say "democracy"?
Examining where, how, and for whom democracy shows up in culture can point us toward where and how we need to engage new conversations about reclaiming our democracy.
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Weekend Edition: Performance, not perfection, might be the enemy of the good
The failure of our leaders to understand their roles and govern is making us less safe and less free.
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Weekend Edition: Augmentation over replacement
If we continue to talk about the future only in the darkest, most post-apocalyptic terms, no one is going to want to go there. And we may miss an opportunity to make it amazing.
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An America without Roe
With a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overruling Roe v Wade in hand, what does this say about America, about how we got here, and where we need to go?
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Democrats are getting what we deserve
Passing on opportunities to demonstrate our principles is a sure path to losing the opportunity to serve.
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Weekend Edition: Blaming the tower, forgetting about the architects
What Jonathan Haidt's "Tower of Babel" essay on the last decade in America oversimplifies and where it might could invite us to go.
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McMorrow's moral leadership
A state senator from Michigan is showing us what strength that is neither angry nor mean can look like.
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Weekend Edition (on Monday): Populism, disinformation, and the Democrats
We're missing something (and an opportunity) at the heart of current populist rumblings on both sides of the aisle -- and it isn't disinformation.