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Documentary about Democracy in Hamtramck looks to raise money
The documentary, which followed the mayoral candidates throughout their campaigns, is looking to raise $55,000 by Jan. 31.
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Republicans are undermining democracy state by state |
What Republican legislators just did in Wisconsin – passing bills to strip key powers from the governor-elect, Tony Evers, and other newly elected Democratic officials – is a total betrayal of the people of Wisconsin and our nation’s democratic ideals.
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Rebirth of a Nation
Can states’ rights save us from a second civil war? By Jonathan Taplin.
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The Democrats' Existential Battle: Achieving Real Democracy
Yesterday’s elections confirmed that Democrats are a national majority party. They have won the popular vote in four of the last five presidential elections and yesterday overcame gerrymandering to retake the House of Representatives. (An example of how much gerrymandering matters: In North Carolina’s twelve contested House races, Democrats won 100,000 more votes overall. Democrats, however, are so packed into super-safe districts that Republicans took nine of those twelve seats.)
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Private Equity Controls the Gatekeepers of American Democracy
Three companies dominate the U.S. voting-maching industry. By Anders Melin and Reade Pickert.
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No, the Threat to Democracy Is Not Too Much Democracy
Has American democracy been hijacked by the passions of its people, now a dangerous and untamable majority undermining the republic? In a new issue of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Rosen, head of the National Constitution Center, says yes. “[James] Madison’s worst fears of mob rule have been realized—and the cooling mechanisms he designed to slow down the formation of impetuous majorities have broken.”
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Is Democracy Really Dying?
Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate. By Timothy Shenk.
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Twitter was supposed to spread democracy, not Trump’s ravings
Here’s the $64,000 question for our time: how did digital technologies go from being instruments for spreading democracy to tools for undermining it? Or, to put it a different way, how did social media go from empowering free speech to becoming a cornerstone of authoritarian power?
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A Boston Globe editorial: Journalists are not the enemy
A central pillar of President Trump’s politics is a sustained assault on the free press. Journalists are not classified as fellow Americans, but rather “the enemy of the people.”
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So, How’s That Major-Party Election Madness Working for Us?
The United States is full of personally decent and caring, often highly intelligent people mired in political ignorance and delusion. By Paul Street.
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Historian on comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler: “My resistance … is being overcome”
President Donald Trump is a symptom of a much larger problem. New research suggests that Trump's supporters are so motivated by racism and bigotry that they may be willing to overturn American democracy so that white right-wing Christians like themselves can maintain continued power over our society.
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Fake news a democratic crisis, MPs warn
The UK faces a "democratic crisis" with voters being targeted with "pernicious views" and data being manipulated, a parliamentary committee is set to warn. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee has been investigating disinformation and fake news following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. In its first report, MPs will suggest social media companies should face tougher regulation or a new tax.
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Epistocracy: a political theorist’s case for letting only the informed vote
A political theorist’s provocative idea for how to fix democracy. By Sean Illing.
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It’s Time For A Little Perspective on Russia
Any Russian interference is only a small part of the “election meddling” we should care about… By Lyle Jeremy Rubin.
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George Soros Bet Big on Liberal Democracy. Now He Fears He Is Losing.
His enemies paint him as all-powerful, but the billionaire philanthropist believes that his political legacy has never been in greater jeopardy.
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Ex-President Jimmy Carter unloads on 'cruel' Trump: US government is now 'worse than it has been before'
When speaking with Salon about his famous “Crisis of Confidence” speech, former President Jimmy Carter had this observation about America’s current commander-in-chief, Donald Trump. “I think that under Trump the government is worse than it has been before,” Carter explained by email. “This is the first time I remember when the truth is ignored, allies are deliberately aggravated, China, Europe, Mexico and Canada are hurt economically and have to hurt us in response, Americans see the future worse than the present, and immigrants are treated cruelly.”
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How technology can empower Democracy
An always-on assessment platform for politicians and their decisions — utilizing blockchain and AI. ‘Professional politicians’ are usually optimized to play the ‘media game’ and often, they only focus on manipulating the public opinion rather than delivering value according to their commitments and official plans.
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Apple’s Tim Cook Addresses NRA-TV On Apple TV: “Democracy Without Discourse Is Not A Democracy”
Cook has publicly lauded the student survivors of the Parkland High School shooting for fighting to make schools safer. Nonetheless, he defended Apple’s decision to make the NRA’s TV channel available for users to download. He said airing alternate views, including those he finds “distasteful,” is important for public discourse. “Public discourse is an important part of democracy,” Cook said in an interview airing tonight on MSNBC and Vox Media’s Recode show Revolution: Apple Changing the World. “Democracy without discourse is not a democracy.”
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Gerrymandering Is Out of Control
Computers could be the key to resolving partisan fights over congressional boundaries. By Eric Boehm.
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Reckoning with the Imperial We
"Before I can talk about Doug Mack’s travelogue-cum-history of America’s colonies, 'The Not-Quite States of America,' I’m going to take a quick detour to talk about the Red Sox..." By K.D. Atherton.
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