Money in politics and the conventions
What happens when Uncle Sam takes off his hat Money in politics is a huge issue, and campaign finance is one item largely ignored by both Republican and Democratic Party platforms. Alex Chandler at...
View ArticleAre debates good for democracy?
Jim Lehrer should have mentioned democracy during the first debate. Well, maybe he planned to before he got steamrolled. There was a push by democracy champions to get a question on Lehrer’s notes,...
View ArticleRedistricting and partisanship
Ah, redistricting. State legislatures across the country (as well as some independent commissions in a smattering of states) spent at least part of 2011 redrawing congressional and state legislative...
View ArticleFix the Senate Now
What’s one way to fix democracy? Well, one coalition says that a key to making our government work for us is to make sure our elected officials actually do work, debate legislation in front of them,...
View ArticleThe AP drops the I-word
Yesterday the Associated Press announced that it would be changing its style guide to remove the term “illegal immigrant.” From the AP’s announcement: The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term...
View ArticleImmigration: A Democracy Issue
“This is what democracy looks like!” So spoke one of the hosts of a gathering of African Diasporan immigrants on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. last week. Participants gathered from near...
View ArticleNCDD Confab on Liberal-Conservative Dialogue
Our friends at NCDD will be hosting their next confab call on Wednesday, May 15 at 2:00pm. Their guests this month will be Phil Neisser and Jacob Hess, who will be discussing bringing liberals and...
View ArticleThoughts on liberal-conservative dialogue
Had a great time listening in to NCDD’s confab call this month on liberal-conservative dialogue. Unfortunately I had to jump off a little early, but there was still plenty of great conversation to be...
View ArticleMore on bipartisanship
Some more interesting thoughts on bipartisanship, this time from Robert Kaiser of the Washington Post, who got near unprecedented access to the staffs of Senator Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank...
View ArticleGetting together on prison reform
Image via Wikimedia Commons Richard Viguerie writes a very interesting piece in the New York Times today, entitled “A Conservative Case for Prison Reform.” An excerpt: But it’s not just the excessive...
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