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Retired Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens discusses some changes he would make to the U.S. Constitution in his recent book, Six Amendments: How and…
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Recent reports indicate some Kansas legislators are considering a measure that would require all high school students to pass a civics examination to…
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When Donald Trump launched his 2016 campaign for president, he announced that he was doing so because he wanted to “Make America Great Again.” When,…
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Have individuals who wear the red cap with the letters MAGA stamped on it and representing Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan, “Make America Great…
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A political science professor at Yale named Milan Svolik is an expert on authoritarian rule. In a recent publication on polarization and democracy, he…
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President Trump does not appear strong politically as we move toward the 2020 presidential campaign. One indication of his weakness is that he has never…
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We know from history that extremist demagogues emerge at times in all societies, even in healthy democracies. We have had our share of them in the United…
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The country is preparing to conduct the 2020 census. Since 1790, every 10 years the Constitution has required a count of all people living in the United…
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The release of the Mueller report and former FBI director James Comey’s assertion that President Donald Trump pressured him to drop an investigation into…
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There are now 20 Democratic candidates for president in 2020. Six are United States senators. One is the former governor of Colorado, and one is the…
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How often do you hear people say they hate politics, and that politics is a “dirty business?” I remember a student telling me he thought enrolling in a…
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Liberal democracy around the world is under its greatest challenge since the depression years of the 1930s.Winston Churchill is reputed to have said the…