“With armed right-wing extremists becoming a regular feature of anti-lockdown protests in several states across the United States, Juan González says the country is “edging closer and closer to neo-fascist authoritarianism” under Donald Trump, who has tacitly approved of the rallies. “If hundreds of African Americans or Latinos showed up in cities around the country…
“Until 2018, Florida was one of only a few states that banned felons from voting for life. But that year, a two-thirds majority of the state passed an initiative to restore voting eligibility to felons who had served their sentences. It was a major victory for voting rights — but the subsequent implementation has been…
“Listen as Dr. Wally Siewert challenges the audience’s moral framework and the state of American Democracy. With a Ph.D. in political philosophy and ethics and over a decade of experience in civic and political engagement, Dr. Siewert is uniquely equipped to apply the clarifying frameworks of political and moral theory to real-world political controversy. Wally…
“Christopher Beem (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is managing director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy. He is the author or co-editor of five books, including The Necessity of Politics (University of Chicago Press). His latest book, Democratic Humility: Reinhold Niebuhr, Neuroscience and America’s Political Crisis (Lexington Books, 2015) argues that democracy requires a specific kind…
“While Mexico and Uruguay are calling for dialogue to address the crisis in Venezuela, much of Latin America has sided with the Trump administration by recognizing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s new leader. We look at what this means for the broader region with professors Alejandro Velasco and Steve Ellner.” Democracy Now! is…
“After a major debate, Democrats have voted on a key progressive demand after the 2016 campaign: to vastly reduce the power of superdelegates in choosing the party’s presidential nominee. Saturday’s vote by the Democratic National Committee comes after the 2016 race for Democratic nominee between Senator Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,…
REPLAY: I originally posted this in the hour that Donald J.Trump was taking the oath as the 45th President of the United States of America. At this hour, a new president is being sworn in as the 45th president of the united states. Not in a million years did I ever think I would see this…