The author, Burt Neuborne, is one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, and questions whether federal government...
Politics
Every right-wing authoritarian movement has one thing in common: a brutal clampdown on any persons or groups...
A person’s political identity is wrapped up in almost everything they do. Exposure to opinions from the...
When it masks a political agenda or when it justifies violence either by groups or state actors,...
When oligarchs fill the coffers of political candidates, they neuter democracy. I keep hearing that the Democratic...
The Great Emancipator was also an open white supremacist who wanted to send freed black people “back...
Big money has always played an important role in U.S. political campaigns, but its influence has been...
From Britain to Hungary to Italy, the far right is on the rise. openDemocracy investigations over the...
Members can walk straight into a Capitol Hill clinic, get treated without insurance, and count on taxpayers...
It is a sad day for our country when comparisons between the leader of Nazi Germany and...
Debates over Congress’s limited legal enforcement options go back decades. By Michael Stern, J.D. The conflict between...
This projected halt is a first in modern history. For the first time in modern history, the...
In the year 1984, there was self-congratulatory coverage that the dystopia of the novel had not been...
Can we learn something about the right’s strategic coherence without emulating either their ideas or their contempt...
“We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages.” By Mike Lofgren...
Unchecked presidential power has never seemed more of a threat. Nearly a half century ago, famed historian...
Conservatives are now basking in the limelight, but the day will come when the right inevitably falls...
Social media monitoring programs and the algorithms that power them aren’t effective — and may be discriminatory....
The last few years have been newsworthy, to say the least. An unprecedented American election, Brexit, earthquakes,...
Why do these people like him? Why does he act so badly? There is nothing new in...
The ideological and religious right have been phenomenally successful in laying claim to the myths and symbols...
Violence attributed to online hate speech has increased worldwide. Societies confronting the trend must deal with questions...
The growing number of self-taught, right-wing “experts” on the Constitution have a comprehensive – if not comprehensible...
America’s elected leaders haven’t ignored equality since 2000. They’ve made it spectacularly worse. By Sam Pizzgati The...
Legislators in a growing number of democracies are clamping down on civil society. In the United States,...
Once again we face dilemmas that require as much of us as any time in the nation’s...
Donald Trump is the beneficiary if not the product of a certain culture of American conservatism, broadly...
Most ‘lean’ toward a party; ‘true’ independents tend to avoid politics. Independents often are portrayed as political...
It’s hard to stick together when we’re being driven further apart. By Dr. Maxine Najle and Dr....
Exploring relationships between neoliberal restructuring and changes in inter-generational relations. Abstract Through an ethnographic case-study of a...