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Politics / Q&A / Laura Flanders speaks with Christopher Armitage and Sumathy Kumar about “soft secession” and building a government that actually works for people. Laura Flanders The courts are ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each of these incidents could be viewed in isolation as discrete policy disputes or passing political storms. But beneath them ...
The League of Women Voters’ mission is essential and urgent: Empowering Voters, Defending Democracy. At a time when our election system is being questioned, distorted and misrepresented from many ...
The recent government shutdown is just the latest reminder of dysfunction in American politics — stalemate, leaders unwilling to compromise and citizens left to pay the price. But beyond gridlock lies ...
Has the United States been captured? This is the question that several academics have asked since Donald Trump’s election. The state capture of South Africa holds important lessons on how to defend ...
The profound crisis facing the United States—masked security forces aggressively preventing people from lawful protest, disappearing people into detention centers, deporting people without due process ...
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At a time when American democracy faces real threats, many mainstream Jewish leaders are struggling to find public footing. Some leaders have spoken out, and some institutions and denominations have ...
Democracy doesn’t fall overnight — it’s chipped away, decision by decision. The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Sept. 8 in Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem is one of those decisions that left a piece of our ...
The first two months of the new year have shaken American political and civic life. The immigration crackdown in Minneapolis that led to two deaths and thousands of arrests sparked widespread public ...
A woman holds up a placard during a candlelight vigil where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was fatally shot by immigration agents last week, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 28, 2026. (Photo by ROBERTO ...