Many have written about the threat Trump’s election poses to the rights and lives of millions of Americans — people of color, Muslims and Sikhs, Jews, immigrants, women (especially women who are not white), LGBTQ Americans, and the disabled — and to democracy itself. Recognition of this…
2016 was only the second time that four presidential candidates received over a million votes…
By Maria Christoforou, student at The New School
This article was first published on Public Seminar.
Initially I saw some scope for democracy. Using prohibition for example… I believed there wasn’t a real issue with people voting for or against it. Obviously here in the US enough people voted for it. But then, of course,… if they truly wanted this rule/law/regulation to be enforced… they should have had no choice but to spend their own tax dollars…
By: Brenda, 17, Youth Justice Board 2016 Alumna
To my excitement, I was invited to speak this past summer at the 2016 Generation Citizen’s Democracy Education Youth Summit, a conference that brought together youth from all over the country from various backgrounds to NYC to…
Interesting, but I couldn’t finish it because of lack of time and two spelling mistakes that scratched my retina:
In the very first paragraph, it should be “principle”, not “principal” and secondly, in 5., “populace” instead of “populous”. But it does sound like a valid argument and AGs of California and New York should take it to the SCOTUS.
For a very long time now, the rhetoric across the country seems to be Democrat vs. Republican, Christian vs. Muslim, Conservative vs. Liberal, and now, snowflakes vs. racists?
This isn’t really a post, or by any means definitive. I’m just trying to sort out some ideas.
In the wake of the Trump election in the US (and Brexit in the UK and, I’m sure, a lot of other political oddities we…
Marx could not expect that his legacy would turn into political shelter for green activists…
In this year’s presidential election, voters had the choice between two of the least popular candidates ever to be nominated by either major party. Of these two candidates, the one who…
It’s fair to ask … what the future can bring.
Anyone reading this can see that my voice is incidental, immaterial, very, very small. A tree falling in the forest? Who cares.
But even democracy ruins itself by excess — of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy. This is at first glance a delightful arrangement; it becomes disastrous because the people are not properly equipped by education to select…
