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Voting Rights Bill a Dead End for Democracy | Insight
House Democrats just passed a new voting rights bill, but it’s not enough to secure democracy’s future.…
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The Big Fail Isn’t in Kabul. It’s on Our TVs. | Insight
The mainstream media’s coverage of Afghanistan has revealed a startling lack of ability to reflect and a parasitic need to generate controversy.…
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The Misadventure of Nation-Building in Afghanistan | Insight
The misguided project of nation-building explains the United States’ failure after twenty years in Afghanistan, as well as why it would be a catastrophic mistake to go back.…
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Raising the Temperature on Climate Rhetoric | Insight
The latest IPCC report demonstrates the scope of the climate crisis, but it’s not clear that politicians know how to get citizens to care.…
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South Africa: In the Aftermath, a Shattered Image of Democracy | Insight
The damage caused by widespread unrest in South Africa highlights the failure of the country’s current leadership to reverse abysmal material conditions.…
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Mr. Carlson Goes to Budapest | Insight
Tucker Carlson tries to pass off Viktor Orbán’s pernicious dismantling of Hungarian democracy as an epitome of freedom worth imitating.…
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Parsons’s Pardons: Liberty and Justice for Some | Insight
The Missouri governor’s pardon of the gun-toting McCloskey couple and neglect of the wrongfully convicted points to the need for a new way of freeing the innocent…
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Japan’s Name-and-Shame an Interesting Approach to Rule-Breakers | Insight
A new practice of publicly announcing the names of COVID quarantine violators points to the importance of community in building a healthy democracy.…
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Impending Evictions and the Grave Consequences of Political Cowardice | Insight
The recent failure to address the evictions about to sweep the country is not just about a housing crisis. It’s about the kind of courage democracy needs in its leaders.…
