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People ambivalent about political issues support violence more than those with clear opinions
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoIn general, being ambivalent reduces political participation. In a new article in the journal Science Advances, we find something that runs counter to that trend of uninvolved ambivalence: The ...
America Must Face Its Civic Crisis
Time via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn short, they learn that the work of defining and realizing democracy is their own. But not solely their own. Like any complex society, we require a...
Opinion | Democracy isn’t doomed
Washington Post· 5 days agoAmericans face the biggest test of their democratic foundation since the Civil War, but that’s no reason to feel helpless. Across the country, states are playing their traditional “laboratories ...
Beyond gangland shootouts and drug trafficking, Italy's mafia is a threat to democracy
U-T San Diego· 5 days agoThe decision barely made news in Italy, where city hall administrations, town councils and local public health agencies are regularly dissolved because of mafia infiltration or collusion, and ...
G7 calls on Israel to respect human rights in Gaza, refrain in Rafah
dpa international via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoThe leaders of the world's seven leading industrialized democracies called on Israel to respect...
Julie Leininger Pycior: Hubert Humphrey’s lessons from the 1968 DNC
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· 5 hours agoAnti-war protesters decry a president who is running for reelection: Are we talking Joe Biden in...
Letters to the editor for Saturday, June 15, 2024
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoThe Republicans ran away from their own immigration proposal on the orders of their great leader.Trump's immigration “solution” is madness. There will be...
Making sense of the post-Trump conviction polls
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 day agoDictator Donald Trump is a great weapon for white identity politics and white power. Donald Trump and his propagandists are escalating their threats of ...
Man planned mass shooting of Black people to start ‘race war,’ feds say
Washington Post· 21 hours agoAn Arizona man plotted to target Black people in a mass shooting this spring with the goal of...
GOP slammed for Trump standing ovation
The Raw Story· 1 day agoCritics slammed Republicans for honoring a convicted felon whose "Big Lie" and actions put their own lives at risk, and resulted in death and tremendous...