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  • 27 Jul 2022
    Eric W. Cheng

    Progressives, Moderates, and the Politics of Principle and Pragmatism

    There is much agreement among ‘progressives’ and ‘moderates’ that the modern Republican Party is an existential threat to American democracy. This agreement, I believe, is well-founded. With notable exceptions , Republican officials have either supported or turned a blind eye towards violent efforts – egged on by a Republican president – to overturn an election. […]

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  • 27 Jun 2022
    Kathy Dodworth

    Legitimacy: crisis or continuity?

    We are, according to US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a ‘crisis of legitimacy’. The US Supreme Court’s overturning of long-settled law Roe vs Wade regarding women’s right to abortion does not reflect US public opinion at large. Trust in the court itself is at an all-time-low, she laid out in a Twitter series on 25 […]

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  • 28 Feb 2022
    Frank Rudy Cooper, Gregory S. Parks

    Notorious B.I.G.’S “Ten Crack Commandments” and Donald Trump

    In his 1997 song, “Ten Crack Commandments,” The Notorious BIG offered some rules to the drug game: I’ve been in this game for years; it made me an animal.There’s rules to this shit; I wrote me a manual.A step-by-step booklet for you to get,Your game on track, not your wig pushed back. These rules have […]

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  • 16 Mar 2021
    Susan F Martin

    Biden on immigration: The first six weeks

    While running for office, Joseph Biden set out an ambitious platform of reforms he intended to make on immigration and refugee policy. Judging by the first six weeks of his Presidency, he is keeping his word. Much more needs to be done to fix what had already been a broken system when Donald G. Trump […]

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  • 10 Mar 2021
    David Grant

    Power, Democracy and Trumpism

    What we are seeing Too much has been written about recent politics in the United States. As a result, there are wide and often contradictory views about how we should understand what has been going on and what is likely to happen within the several ‘out’ years from now. So perhaps it is time for […]

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  • 5 Mar 2021

    The Biden Agenda

    Joe Biden has become President of the United States at a time when the country faces acute crises on many fronts. The most pressing—in both health and economic terms—is the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but the country must also confront the environmental and energy implications of climate change; deep racism across American institutions; ongoing weakness in […]

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  • 23 Jul 2020

    Too Many Police, Too Many Jails

    As Black Lives Matter brings millions together in the mission to end state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism, we want to highlight some of the work we’ve published – or will publish – that supports this movement. This piece is the first in what will be an ongoing series, each one dedicated to a separate issue […]

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  • 17 Apr 2020
    Ursula Hackett

    Private School Choice: How to Win Big

    Imagine you’re a policymaker who wants to expand parental choice of private education. You’re not alone: sixty school voucher programs operate across the United States, offering hundreds of thousands of families the money to pay for private school tuition. Virtually all of them were created in the last two decades. What explains this explosive recent […]

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