The practice of putting rulers’ faces on money to remind everyone who’s in charge dates back centuries. But in modern democracies, such displays of pomp are unfashionable https://t.co/RUTdqtoduV ...

In an era where America is polarized and civil discourse is rare, a breakdown in judicial decorum isn’t trivial, @profnoahfeldman writes. It strikes at the core of a functioning democracy (via @opinion) https://t.co/D0HiR5OwgN ...

We don’t live in a democracy if our elected leaders fail to implement the will of the peopleInteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022):CBS News Poll: Do you favor or oppose requiring people to show valid photo ID before they are permitted to vote?🟢 Favor: 80%🟤 Oppose: 20%——• Dem: 65-35 (+30)• GOP: 95-5 (+90)• Indie: 79-21 (+58)• White: 80-20 (+60)• Black: 80-20 (+60)• Hispanic: 77-23 (+55) https://t.co/HDucLt4yoX ...

And you need ID in elections or they’re fakeDefiant L’s (@DefiantLs):Elon Musk: "Freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy. That's why freedom of speech is the First Amendment. Once you lose freedom of speech, you lose democracy."https://t.co/Xy3kmHhxj0 ...

that democrats have needed to do a lot better is build a bench and making sure that we're building a bench early and often and that we're teaching people how to run campaigns teaching people about what does it mean to protect democracy and actually giving them the tools to do it not just read it in a textbook but actually win the campaigns in real life and this program democracy summer that representative raskin started years ago does that very thing but it's not like jamie just started the program and is d ...

Before you even open your eyes in the morning, politics has already made decisions for you. Sustainable energy allows the light to turn on. Water management provides clean water.Agricultural policies determine whether there's food on your table and infrastructure planning decides whether you can travel safely to school. None of these feel political, but all of them are. Politics decides how these policies are designed, funded, and implemented so that your daily life can run smoothly.Yet, when people hear th ...

RT The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦 (@Rob_ThaBuilder)This is insane.I obviously have a position on this, but forget that for a second. Just from a basic democracy perspective, you simply cannot make a fundamental change to the immigration system that cuts immigration from similar cultures (i.e. EU migratjon) to zero while exponentially increasing migration from cultures massively different without public buy in. You cannot sneak something in like this through the backdoor without a public debateLook, if an election ...

The last minute of 60 Minutes is sponsored by United Healthcare. Coverage you can count on for your whole life ahead. To mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, we've invited leaders in the arts, science, and business to share their reflections.For this Oscar night, we asked Academy Award winner Jaime Lee Curtis, "How do we form a more perfect union?" >> I don't think it's possible to have a perfect union. I think that was the whole idea. I think the whole idea was that we would always be doing ...

The outcome of Nepal’s recent national election is a democratic confirmation of its “Gen Z” uprising https://t.co/Awa04JF48Z ...

For more on this, maybe he's got an answer. Matt Stoller joins me. He's the director of research at the American Economic Liberties Project.He's also the author of Goliath, The Hundred-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. Matt, welcome to the show. Thank you for being with us.Hey, thanks for having me. Matt, I'm beginning I'm beginning to think that this is one of those things that is going to start to dissolve around party lines, because a whole lot of people who validly supported Donald Trump be ...