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Learning while doing during the primaries
Is San Francisco's recall of their progressive district attorney revealing something important about the state of liberalism?
Weekend Edition: They cannot be shamed
History, culture, suffering, and how we might begin to find our way to a safer, freer future.
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Weekend Edition: Performance, not perfection, might be the enemy of the good
The failure of our leaders to understand their roles and govern is making us less safe and less free.
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An America without Roe
With a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overruling Roe v Wade in hand, what does this say about America, about how we got here, and where we need to go?
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Democrats are getting what we deserve
Passing on opportunities to demonstrate our principles is a sure path to losing the opportunity to serve.
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McMorrow's moral leadership
A state senator from Michigan is showing us what strength that is neither angry nor mean can look like.
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Weekend Edition (on Monday): Populism, disinformation, and the Democrats
We're missing something (and an opportunity) at the heart of current populist rumblings on both sides of the aisle -- and it isn't disinformation.
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A new excuse for Democrats?
Misinterpreting election cycles is a pretty consistent theme in the Democratic party over the last decade, and it seems to be starting early this cycle.
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Gerrymandering is all about not trusting people
Our increasingly power-centric, incumbent-centric civic systems are confirming that our leaders no longer trust us or their own leadership -- if they ever did.
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We still need justice for January 6th
There is no "too late" here: investigate, prosecute, expel, imprison.
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?