When it comes to Donald Trump, it’s always about one thing: money. So why, you might ask, didn’t the various investigations of Trump’s Russia connection — by special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI, by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, by several House committees, by the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New […]

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Donald Trump’s plans for overturning the election result if he loses again have become increasingly visible. This year, Team Trump’s attack on our election system encompasses three distinct phases. In Phase One, state and local officials loyal to Trump—aided and abetted by outside pressure groups and lawyers—erect obstacles designed to suppress votes for Harris, Walz, […]

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This article is published in partnership with the The Center for Media and Democracy. The appearance of Teamsters president Sean O’Brien at the Republican convention in July was the most public salvo yet in an otherwise quiet conservative debate: whether, and how, to embrace labor, and what to do about the union question. O’Brien’s unusual […]

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A renowned chronicler of the evolution and growing pains of democracy, Anthony Barnett reports on the dire potential for abuse of the surveillance state in the wake of the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity. West Oxford, UK — Speaking on 29 July at the LBJ library in Austin Texas, to mark the 60th anniversary of […]

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Sioux Falls, SD — When your roots are planted too deep in red soil to move, and the GOP has applied Roundup to your party, the question becomes, now what? For our feisty little band of Dakotans, the answer is direct democracy. The instrument is unwieldy. It can explode in your hands. But it’s all […]

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