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Are people "pro-democracy"?
In the battle to defend/reform/reinvigorate/stabilize/resilient-ize American democracy, we may be relying on a narrative that only resonates with the folks doing the work.
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The Biden Administration Year 2
In this moment of "all the things" it's easy to forget that President Biden should just be getting started.
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Habit is not the same as tradition
We need to talk about what we're really talking about when we talk about the filibuster: our desperate need for our leaders to govern.
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We still need justice for January 6th
There is no "too late" here: investigate, prosecute, expel, imprison.
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Our questions matter
Maybe the uncertainty of 2021 (and 2020) is not pointing to clear answers, but perhaps is giving us something else we need: room to ask questions.
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An accidental Fulcrum Strategy
Instead of creating a 3rd caucus in the Senate by electing independents, are we about to see the dream of the bipartisan/antipartisan movement come to fruition as a consequence of party dysfunction?
Winning is not a moral good
What do we do when "winning" is no longer correlated with progress?
Data-driven, data-represented
Is the disconnect between representatives and represented being driven by our increasingly data-driven campaigns?
How we heal
Hint: it's not about depolarization. Healing requires inclusion. Inclusion requires celebrating, not just tolerating difference.
The local costs of polarization
People often talked about ignoring our nationalized dysfunctional political discourse and focusing locally. Is that even possible? What is polarization costing us?
The Exhausted Majority
What do we really mean when we say polarization? Perhaps the reality of American political culture is not as bi-polar as we've gotten used to -- or been told.
Why we should care about polarization
Other than the fact that our national civic dialog feels like an elementary school food fight, does the increased intensity of political polarization matter? Yes -- profoundly.