The Problem With American Patriotism
Patriotism has come to mean blind love of country, leaving little room for critique.
Democracy
American Exceptionalism Is Not So Exceptional After All
We are a nation comprising more than 330 million people who've proven that we're capable of doing great things. So why have we adapted a sense of untenable, rugged individualism?
The Polarization of Freedom
How the Right co-opted America’s most sacred value.
The Great American Myth of Equality
The land of equal opportunity has always been an oligarchy built upon the desires of the privileged few.
High Schoolers Are Ready to Fix Your School Board
School boards have become the arena for heated political debates, and the kids want a seat at the table.
We Have the Power to Fix Our Constitution
Americans have a week to decide who will prevent another insurrection, pass national legislation on abortion, and protect our right to vote. Will we make the right, possibly final decision to protect our laws?
The Galloping Fascism of the Christian Right
In just the month of June 2022 alone, far-right conservatives launched physical, legislative, and cultural attacks on American society in an attempt to forcefully remake it in the image of Christian nationalism.
The Fraying of the Social Contract
Our trust in systems, government, and in one another is at an all-time low. Is there any hope for our shared sense of sacrifice?
Opinion Journalism Is Broken
The goal of newspapers is to inform the public. But increasingly, they are publishing opinion pieces as fact, misleading and confusing readers, and undermining their own agenda—and quite possibly, our democracy.
Why Do We Make Politics So Complicated?
Americans are up to their necks in urgent crises, from an ever-evolving pandemic to climate disaster to supremacist autocracy, and can't bring themselves to tackle, let alone acknowledge any of them.