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Politics by Other Means

Political violence is unthinkable in a civil society. What about the one we live in?

Dec 18, 2024

A woman seen from behind, standing in front of a capitol building, holding up a protest sign that reads, “This Body is Not a Political Battlefield #StopTheBans”

Dec 18, 2024

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We all agree the system is failing all of us. What are we going to do about it?

Millions of people just voted against the policies they say they want. That is as much a “little d” democratic failure as a Democratic one.

Nov 26, 2024

Black and white image of a blackboard; written in chalk: Freedom School Applicants Come to Rear of Church

Nov 26, 2024

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The problem with Democrats is Republicans. The solution is organizing.

In a two party system, the collapse of one party necessarily infects the other.

Apr 29, 2024

The problem with Democrats is Republicans. The solution is organizing.

Apr 29, 2024

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Who’s Next? Cuomo and the Abusive Progressive Workplace

Far from being less common in progressive workplaces, harassment and abuse are common and insidious problems for progressive staff.

Aug 11, 2021

Disgraced New York Attorney General receiving an endorsement from disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Photo credit: Citizen Action NY

Aug 11, 2021

Solo

For years, this was my story as I understood it. I could be the full measure of myself or I could be partnered, but I could not be both.

Aug 9, 2020

Solo

Aug 9, 2020

Between The Pit of Man’s Fears And The Summit Of His Knowledge: Meditations on Confinement…

Elegy (S1E20)

Mar 16, 2020

Between The Pit of Man’s Fears And The Summit Of His Knowledge: Meditations on Confinement…

Mar 16, 2020

Whose Identity Politics?

In all the back and forth over identity politics — how it should be defined, who is or is not practicing it, what if any role it should…

Mar 15, 2020

A button from Ronald Reagan’s 1980 U.S. presidential campaign. It bears the slogan “Let’s Make America Great Again”

Mar 15, 2020

The Fierce Urgency of “How?”

Something my mother used to say to me that I still repeat to myself several times a week: “You’re absolutely right. And that and $1.15…

Mar 9, 2020

The Fierce Urgency of “How?”

Mar 9, 2020

Building a Theory of Change

The first time I heard the phrase “theory of change” I recoiled. The world is a messy tangle of people and institutions interacting in…

Feb 2, 2020

Building a Theory of Change

Feb 2, 2020

One Sunday Morning

One morning, when I was around 10 years old, I woke up to what I was sure was the sound of my mother being murdered. As I crept across my…

Nov 21, 2019

One Sunday Morning

Nov 21, 2019

Michele L Kilpatrick

Michele L Kilpatrick

Over 17 years experience providing strategic research and planning, policy analysis and principled leadership on issue, organizing and electoral campaigns.

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