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Mickey
The convergence today of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and of the Senate’s unwillingness to protect voting rights causes me to remember my childhood fri…
3 years, 11 months ago
Need a bit of a pick-me-up? Let me introduce you to two young people.
These are hard times to keep your spirits up. Thinking you might need a bit of a boost, I’d like to introduce you to two young people who give me hop…
3 years, 11 months ago
Why isn't corporate America behind the pro-democracy movement?
Capitalism and democracy are compatible only if democracy is in the driver’s seat.
That’s why I took some comfort just after the attack on the Capitol…
3 years, 11 months ago
Quiz: Why should members of Congress be able to make money on inside information?
It infuriates me when members of Congress — whether Republican or Democrat — squander the public’s trust. There’s so little of it left to squander. S…
3 years, 11 months ago
What would the Supreme Court's "originalists" think of the filibuster?
Yesterday, a member of our group named Emmet Bondurant, a distinguished constitutional lawyer from Georgia, commented on this page about the filibust…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Week Ahead: Georgia on my mind
President Biden will go to Georgia tomorrow to give a speech on voting rights. It’s expected to be as hard-hitting as his speech last Thursday about …
4 years ago
Is there still a common good?
We’ve gone through the shameful first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol and of the refusal of 147 members of Congress (all Republicans) t…
4 years ago
The secret to tenacity
I sometimes hear from people who tell me they’ve been fighting for years for the common good — for social justice, for a stronger democracy, for a su…
4 years ago
A year ago today
Friends,
The words “anniversary” or “commemoration” do not appropriately characterize this day. What occurred a year ago is nothing to be memorialized…
4 years ago
Today's Office Hours discussion: Will America have a second civil war?
Friends,
With Trump’s Big Lie largely unchallenged by Republican lawmakers, the Republican Party has swung almost entirely into the Trump camp. Over 7…
4 years ago