Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. October 20, 2009. An interview with Mark Danner, whose new book, Stripping Bare the Body, explores the strange notion of a democratic empire and the wars it wages.
Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. September 8, 2009. You can always come up with an excuse not to participate in our democratic system, but here's why your reasons are bogus.
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. August 12, 2009. When an industry gets secret concessions in return for a promise to lend its support to a key piece of legislation, we're in big trouble.
Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.. July 15, 2009. When we create the right environment for deliberative democracy, we can arrive at consensus. In that consensus, there is power.
George Lakoff, AlterNet. June 1, 2009. Conservatives are trying to redefine empathy as irrational personal feeling. In fact, empathy is the basis of our democracy and must be defended.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. April 7, 2009. If we don't stop the rapacious looting of the public treasury, we'll be left with trillions in debts and a robust police state.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. February 4, 2009. The economic crisis could plunge the U.S. into a long period of social instability. Our democracy is in peril; the threat of totalitarianism is real.
Frances Moore Lappe, YES! Magazine. January 31, 2009. Having our basic physical needs met isn't enough. Though they're important, neither are family and friends.
Deanna Zandt, DeannaZandt.com AlterNet: PEEK. January 28, 2009. The USA, your quality supplier of the ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage.
David Sirota, SFGate.com. January 24, 2009. Every patriot should be concerned about the intensifying efforts to supplant democracy with something far more authoritarian: "American czarism."
Jonathan Cook, AlterNet. January 16, 2009. In a move signaling a further breakdown in Jewish-Arab relations inside Israel, all the main Jewish parties voted on for the blanket disqualification.
David Sirota, AlterNet. December 6, 2008. In our nation, presidential pooches are front-page stories. Local democracy is, at best, filler surrounding classified ads and comic strips.
Olivia Burlingame Goumbri, AlterNet. December 3, 2008. State and municipal elections held in Venezuela strongly favored President Chávez and his political party.
Naomi Klein, NaomiKlein.com. November 6, 2008. Terrible looting of public capital has a habit of taking place during periods of dramatic political transition, and Bush has one underway.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Video. November 3, 2008. Voting problems in this country have reached the point at which they cannot be ignored.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. October 24, 2008. In a democracy, people depend on one another to make rules that benefit everyone. Author Deborah Stone discusses how the GOP destroyed that reality.
Adam Skaggs, Brennan Center for Justice. October 17, 2008. The GOP-led campaign to cast doubt on the integrity of the 2008 vote comes as states are breaking records for new voters.
David Sirota, AlterNet. October 4, 2008. We now face market forces uninhibited by democratic governance. The bailout is an aggressive attempt to trade democracy for autocracy.
Wendy Weiser, Brennan Center for Justice. September 25, 2008. The Social Security Administration, whose databases verify new voter registrations, will be shut down in mid-October for three days for maintenance.
