Myths about the founders and President Grant cannot restore legitimacy to a democracy in the wake of a second presidential impeachment and acquittal and facing competing demands to unify the country, rebuild the economy and address racial injustice.
Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.
Violence has not produced justice anywhere. We must build a nonviolent movement in the 21st century that advances a multi-racial democracy that has never before existed in the United States.
Democracy reform is the first step toward a sustainable future.
The belief that America previously had a well-functioning democracy is an illusion. The riot by supporters of President Trump, aimed at preventing the counting of electoral votes, reveals a darker side of the history of American democracy.
A year of agony and uproar
He’s violating his oath to protect the Constitution, and every day that he’s allowed to remain in power, the threat to our democracy grows. There are constitutional provisions to remove such a person from power.
Abolishing the controversial democratic institution seems out of the question. But there is still a way around it.
Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century.
The United States will be a multiracial democracy – a democracy in which people of color have full democratic rights — or it won’t be a democracy at all.
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