Did it matter that 7,000,000 people turned out for last month’s No Kings Day? If you ever wondered whether all of our recent protests, vigils, and rallies were having any effect, Tuesday’s election should remove all doubts. Tuesday was like a warm spring breeze in the...
The Democratic Party seems incapable of reading the moment. While individual Democrats like Chris Murphy, J.B. Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, Jasmine Crocket, Cory Booker, and AOC rise to the occasion, the national party leaders— Schumer, Jeffries, Biden, Obama, Clinton,...
Some defend the status quo. Others call for upheaval, even violent overthrow, to cure our civic rot. But violence only breeds new cycles of violence. What we need is a peaceful inner revolution: a Great Turning married to a Great Commitment, the kind Gandhi, Nelson...
Starting on the evening of last November 5, as the state by state presidential election counts were coming in and pointing to the inevitability of Donald Trump’s election to a second term, I have been taking note on a daily basis of how much more of a reactive person...
The other day White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller declared the “Democrat party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization.” Just a day earlier Donald Trump directed the pentagon to establish specialized National Guard units to quell...
