Earlier this month, just hours after the US Supreme Court restored a congressional map that a lower federal court had ordered redrawn because it diluted Black voting power, I set out to drive many of these district lines that surgically
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Opinion: If voters don’t stop it, election deniers could kill American democracy
We work to make sure that every eligible citizen is registered, has the information they need to vote, has their vote counted correctly and can have rightly placed faith in a complex electoral process — one made more onerous by
White House Cut Taiwanese Minister’s Video Feed at Democracy Summit over Map Separating Taiwan, China
Taiwan flags at a square ahead of the national day celebration in Taoyuan, Taiwan, October 8, 2021. (Ann Wang/Reuters) The White House cut a video feed of a Taiwanese minister during President Biden’s Summit for Democracy last week after a
Hillary Clinton Warns Trump 2024 Presidential Victory ‘Could Be the End of Our Democracy’
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives for the opening ceremony of the Generation Equality Forum at the Louvre Carrousel in Paris, France, June 30, 2021. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters) Former secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton warned
House passes Protect Our Democracy Act to curb presidential abuses of power
One Republican, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, voted with all the Democrats for the bill. The bill now faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where 60 votes are required for passage. The bill, which has support from the White
Climate, Democracy, and Other People’s Money
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 1, 2021. (Christopher Furlong/Pool via Reuters) The week of November 1: COP-26, corporatism,
Ilhan Omar Says Senate Democrats Obstructing Effort to Eliminate Filibuster ‘Are Killing our Democracy’
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., September 27, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Progressive representative Ilhan Omar has claimed that moderate Democratic senators, namely Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, obstructing the effort to kill
If You Care about Democracy, You Should Want Glenn Youngkin to Win
Rewarding stolen-election conspiracy theorist Terry McAuliffe, again, is no way to demonstrate fealty to democratic legitimacy. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here is a certain species of argument going around again (see, for example, this Mona Charen column) that holds that
Can AI make democracy more equitable?
Democracy in ancient Athens looked quite different from today’s democracy. Instead of elections, most positions, including the legislature, the governing council, and justice of the peace, were filled with citizen volunteers selected by random lottery. These civic meetings drafted, debated,