On the morning of November 6, liberals woke up to a nightmare. A great red sweep took the nation. An election so close experts predicted its results would only be known in following days resulted in the landslide victory for…
Mexico’s democracy, after years of resilience and progress, is tumbling toward an authoritarian abyss. As of September 15th, 2024, the judicial branch—formerly made up of judges appointed by the government—will now be elected by the populace. The public, however, will…
Donald Trump won the election. The Republicans won the House and the Senate. Six of the nine Supreme Court Justices are conservative. America, it seems, will be reconstructed in the image of the far-Right. Quite decisively, the Democrats lost. There…
If there’s a quippy statistic that sums up young people, it’s the following: The average high schooler today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s. Dr. Robert Leahy of the American Institute for…
Benjamin Franklin described the structure of the then-new American government as “a republic, if you can keep it.” That is to say, the very notion of American democratic governance is fragile and could collapse if imperiled. The current Supreme Court…
On May 10, 2022, Governor Ned Lamont signed a bill into law intended to limit the use of solitary confinement in Connecticut. Lamont had vetoed a similar bill in 2021, but included some of the same policies in this year’s…
The message of Trump’s tweet is clear: dissenting people of color are not welcome here.
Jack Kelly writes about the political nature of the holiday season.
