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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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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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Gerrymandering is all about not trusting people
Our increasingly power-centric, incumbent-centric civic systems are confirming that our leaders no longer trust us or their own leadership -- if they ever did.
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Habit is not the same as tradition
We need to talk about what we're really talking about when we talk about the filibuster: our desperate need for our leaders to govern.
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We still need justice for January 6th
There is no "too late" here: investigate, prosecute, expel, imprison.
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An accidental Fulcrum Strategy
Instead of creating a 3rd caucus in the Senate by electing independents, are we about to see the dream of the bipartisan/antipartisan movement come to fruition as a consequence of party dysfunction?
Winning is not a moral good
What do we do when "winning" is no longer correlated with progress?
Youngkin is the not end of Trumpism
He represents a metastatic evolution of Trumpism that reinstitutionalizes a dangerous, backward-looking worldview that will make the transformation that humanity craves (and desperately needs) harder.
"No one wants to work."
What's the relationship between health, meaning, work, and survival in America?
New founders same as the old founders
What The US Constitution can teach us about reforming modern media
The language of environmentalism
Global warming became climate change. What needs to come next?
The guns or the violence?
Like all chicken-or-the-egg arguments, what matters most is where we go from here.