8 January Attack
— The January 8 riot attack on Brazil’s National Congress shows the consequences of choosing corrupt, populist, and fearmongering leaders.
8 January Attack
— The January 8 riot attack on Brazil’s National Congress shows the consequences of choosing corrupt, populist, and fearmongering leaders.
Conspiracy Theories
— Why deep state conspiracies keep on spinning out of control.
US Politics
— Why breakaway Republicans are blocking the election of a new speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Voting Rights
— Laws making it more difficult to vote are being introduced around the democratic world, an expert says. They risk undermining democracy.
OPINION
— Congressman-elect George Anthony Santos lied about his career on his resume before being elected.
OPINION
— As his “brand” starts to diminish, there are three choices left for former President Donald J. Trump.
OPINION
— The vote results of the last mid-term elections have had political pundits, politicians, and the news media speculating that it’s the end of Donald Trump’s political dominance.
Analysis
— Donald Trump made little mention of his personal legal battles as he announced his bid to retake the White House. But would an indictment end the former president’s run for presidency?
Analysis
— Some fascists claim that democracy and fascism have the same goal – to give effect to the will of the people. But who the people are is where the ideologies divide.
OPINION
— President Biden had it right when he said that democracy won Tuesday’s elections. The pundits, pollsters and press had it wrong when they say Democrats won the election.
OPINION
— A rare occurrence in American jurisprudence took place last month that reflects both the hope and doom of small democratic law in America.
OPINION
— If you ever entertained any notion that the Republican Party will endure in a democracy, tell me what you’re smoking, please.
OPINION
— Between Ron DeSantis, Liz Cheney and Donald Trump, the Republicans seem to have already chosen their candidate for 2024 – or have they?
OPINION
— B. Jay Cooper occasionally hands out awards for Yos! and Oys!, celebrating those individuals who do good deeds (Yo!) and bad ones (Oy!). The Committee on Yos! and Oys! meets when it feels like it.
OPINION
— If Donald Trump is elected President in 2024, none of the world’s democracies will be safe or protected from China’s or Russia’s forced attempts to convert democracies to autocracies.
Donald Trump
— A presidential scholar sets the history and context for the battle over President Trump’s official records – and says it isn’t the first records battle between the government and a former president.
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