Jury diversity is a worthy goal and there are ways to reach it
Jury service is not easy and it’s not popular. But the right to a jury is embedded in the constitutional right to a fair trial. When juries do not reflect the diversity of the...
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Trump’s Family Separation Czar Is Back
Tom Homan, Trump’s former acting ICE director who contributed to Project 2025, will be “border czar” in the next administration. In President Donald Trump’s first term, Tom Homan was an architect of the infamous family...
We’ve Seen 105 Years and 19 Presidents. Trump’s Gotta Get Past All of Us.
Trump’s win comes after a campaign in which he consistently targeted immigrants, transgender youth, and other vulnerable communities with hateful rhetoric. He also threatened retribution against dissidents and political opponents. I know that many...
This Time We Have to Hold the Democratic Party Elite Responsible for This Catastrophe
Trump won because the opposition party is committed to ancien régime restoration in a country that desperately wants change. While the presidential election wasn’t called until early Wednesday morning, by midnight the overwhelming evidence...
America Should Embrace a Parliamentary Democracy
Our nation faces the serious threat of electing Donald Trump for a second term despite his willingness, even enthusiasm, for gutting vital democratic norms. What appears to be a glitch in the U.S. electoral...
Democratic women see a country that is ‘not ready for a woman president’
The agony for Democrats wasn’t just that the vice president lost. It was also, to many women, that for the second time in a decade a Democratic woman had lost to Donald Trump. Kamala...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Democrats Demobilized Their Base. A Movement Is Now Needed to Oppose Trump
Donald Trump’s performance in the 2024 election surpassed expectations, with the candidate winning the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia and picking up larger shares of more diverse segments of the...
Donald Trump Is Changing What It Means To Be ‘American’
Donald Trump’s mythical narrative of decline and decay seeks to replace our national origin story: that this country is “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” In his third consecutive bid...
Tyranny Expert Exposes Donald Trump ‘Trick’ That Can Be Toppled ‘With My Little Finger’
Timothy Snyder said the former president’s recent rhetoric is all about one thing. Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, who is an expert on authoritarianism, this weekend argued that all of former President Donald Trump’s...
Suggesting ‘nine barrels shooting’ at Cheney, Trump reverts to violent rhetoric
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump’s suggestion Thursday that former Rep. Liz Cheney should stand “with nine barrels shooting at her” cast a menacing new shadow over the final days of the presidential race, stoking...