March 2015 Archives
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Tuesday, Mar 31, 2015, 12:45 PM
Richard Cohen’s Authoritarian Fetish
The Washington Post columnist has discovered America’s problem: too much democracy.
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Sunday, Mar 29, 2015, 10:21 PM
Indiana’s Law Is Wrong Anyway
Democrats fumble the easy, honest response to Mike Pence’s ugly “religious freedom” law.
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Friday, Mar 27, 2015, 11:30 AM
Uber Is Just a New Boss
Uber and Airbnb aren’t giving workers back the means of production. They’re just new bosses, with new rules.
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Thursday, Mar 26, 2015, 9:15 AM
Will the University of Phoenix Rise Again?
As for-profit colleges gear up for important new regulations, there are signs that the industry is beginning to lose some clout.
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Monday, Mar 23, 2015, 3:45 AM
Why Starbucks Can’t Leave Politics Alone
Starbucks gives up on its “Race Together” initiative, but if history is any indication, this isn’t its last gasp of political earnestness.
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Thursday, Mar 19, 2015, 12:30 PM
How Badly Has Bibi Misread U.S. Politics?
Netanyahu took an ugly path to reelection. Does he understand how it will cost his relationship with the U.S.?
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Wednesday, Mar 18, 2015, 9:15 AM
A Republic, If We Can Keep It
Americans today seem awfully complacent about the health of their democracy — which would shock thinkers and citizens of the past.
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Friday, Mar 13, 2015, 9:00 AM
The Democrats’ High-Risk Clinton Gambit
Democrats who insist that Hillary Clinton is ‘too big to fail’ are hiding their own role in creating such a risk to begin with.
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Wednesday, Mar 11, 2015, 12:12 AM
Corporations Don’t Have Souls
In covering Apple’s expensive new watch, journalists unwittingly reveal their susceptibility to corporate propaganda.
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Sunday, Mar 8, 2015, 8:51 PM
Obama’s Demanding Exceptionalism
It’s not merely a matter of rhetoric, but of the way we describe ourselves, the stories we tell about our history.
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Thursday, Mar 5, 2015, 9:15 AM
Antonin Scalia, Political Analyst
At oral arguments, the judge reveals his jejune theory of congressional competence.
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Wednesday, Mar 4, 2015, 9:00 AM
Democracy in Ferguson
The Justice Department reveals rampant discrimination and bigotry in the city’s police force. What now?
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Tuesday, Mar 3, 2015, 9:30 AM
What Bibi’s Speech Reveals About the Right
Conservative defenses of the Netanyahu speech reveal some very ugly sentiments.
Nathan Pippenger
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News
New York Times, Vox Cover Levi’s Essay on Fracking
The New York Times, Vox: Michael Levi’s Summer 2015 Democracy essay, “Fracking and the Climate Debate,” was recently discussed in The New York Times and on Vox.
Events
Liu Discusses Democracy Essay at Aspen Ideas Festival
The Aspen Institute: On June 29, Eric Liu presented his piece from the upcoming Fall 2015 edition of Democracy, “How to Be American,” at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Liu discussed his essay with Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of New America, and an editorial advisory committee member of Democracy.
News
Hanauer and Rolf’s “Shared Security” Idea Catches On
The Washington Post: Nick Hanauer and David Rolf’s Summer 2015 Democracy essay, “Shared Security, Shared Growth” was recently cited on The Washington Post’s Plum Line blog and Fusion.
Passa Caglia on
Obama's Quiet Dismantling of Reaganism (1)
Kenneth Obiakor on
Two Ways of Judging Obama's Foreign Policy (1)
Kendall Baxter on
On Libya, a New Kind of American Leadership (3)