General Commentary

Making Elections Great Again: A Prescription To Increase Electoral Fairness in the Age of Citizens United

Making Elections Great Again: A Prescription To Increase Electoral Fairness in the Age of Citizens United

In 1992, I was a junior in high school in Manchester, the largest city in New Hampshire. At the time, Manchester had a population of about 100,000, and during that cold winter it seemed at least half of those people were presidential candidates. Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Bob Kerrey, and Jerry Brown all made appearances at my high school.

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Political Cartoon

Political Cartoon

"Seeking Better Angels of Our Nature" Contributing Editor: Jamie Domnick Twitter: @JNick9456 Instagram:JNick9456 Currently a student at the University of Wisconsin--Green Bay; double majoring in Democracy & Justice Studies, and History. At the beginning of my college career, I intended to major in Art and then perhaps teach the subject. However, as I continued to take various classes, I soon

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Mueller Can’t Fix Our Broken Brains

Mueller Can’t Fix Our Broken Brains

In a brilliant article written for Vox.com by David Roberts, we are introduced to what the author calls an “epistemic crisis” that has changed the very nature of knowing itself, at least for many Americans: Epistemology is the study of knowledge, and of the rationality of belief.  Some things we think, some things we believe, and some things we know

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A Woman Without A Party

A Woman Without A Party

My background. I am in my early forties, a doctoral candidate, and a public-school teacher of 15 years. I was raised in the Midwest, middle class, in an extremely segregated metro area. It was the 1980s. My family were diehard Reagan Republicans, as was I. Perhaps I still am, though the “Republican” part of that moniker has made me more

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Just What A Predator Needs

Just What A Predator Needs

A Marriage and Family Counseling licensing exam question asks what a child molester looks like.  A scary monster?  The answer is that there are no distinguishing physical characteristics, i.e. they look normal.  Kevin Spacey and Dustin Hoffman joining ranks of WeinsteinGate dispel Harvey Weinstein as archetype.  Webster defines 'predator' as: "one that preys, destroys, devours." Thanks to Oprah discussing child

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Conversation With a Retired Lieutenant

Conversation With a Retired Lieutenant

It’s not everyday you get to eat with a retired  Lieutenant and talk about social issues going on in this society. That’s exactly what I was able to do this October evening, Going in I was scared Working up my nerves to have this conversation and I’m 6’6 315 but it was a conversation worth having. Retired Cop  Dom  Interview

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Toto, We’re All Going to Kansas: Trump and Ryan’s Dangerous Tax Folly

Toto, We’re All Going to Kansas: Trump and Ryan’s Dangerous Tax Folly

In 2012, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback started a grand experiment designed to forever prove the supremacy of Conservative “trickle-down” economics.  Huge tax cuts, especially for large businesses and rich people were supposed to spur growth and wealth was supposed to flow downhill.  Well, as we all know it’s not wealth that flows downhill. In 2016, years after Kansas had been

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Let’s Change The Channel

Let’s Change The Channel

I hear this all the time: “________ is dividing this country!” Insert anyone’s name from contemporary politics in there and the chances are good that you’ve heard that, too. “Bernie is dividing this country!” “Trump is dividing this country!” “Hillary is dividing his country!” “Oh yeah? Well, what about Obama! He did nothing but divide this country for 8 years!”

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Greg Boyle: Hubris to Humility

Greg Boyle: Hubris to Humility

Greg Boyle founded Homeboy Industries 30 years ago to help those that nobody else was interested in helping – inmates and ex-cons – giving them a chance to reassimilate. Today, it's a thriving $16M social enterprise that helps thousands of men and women a year By Allana Baroni  [Reprinted from CSQ Magazine]   Seventeen years ago, during a visit to

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#HerToo

#HerToo

Abduction. Child marriage. Rape. Forced prostitution. These are the stark realities for millions of women and girls across the globe—and their stories are not being heard. Just last year, 9 million girls were forced to have sex against their wills. More than 700 million women alive today were married as children; some 250 million were married before age 15. And

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America’s Hypocrisy on Gun Deaths

America’s Hypocrisy on Gun Deaths

In 2015 and 2016, a tropical mosquito-transmitted disease infected some 42,000 Americans in the continental United States and its territories. There was a coordinated governmental effort to control and contain spread of the virus. Major League Baseball moved games from Puerto Rico to Miami in response to player concerns about the disease.  Olympians withdrew from their respective teams rather than

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Donald Trump’s Useless Eaters: #FreeRosa in the era of ascendant Fascism

Donald Trump’s Useless Eaters: #FreeRosa in the era of ascendant Fascism

In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. In the same year, his National Socialist (Nazi) Party began a systematic campaign of public ridicule and private sterilization, isolation and murder of the disabled in Germany. When the Nazis were not stopped from claiming these first of their victims, the most vulnerable population among their citizens, the way was paved for

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“Trick or Treat.”

“Trick or Treat.”

Harvey Weinstein in the wild - Halloween themed. Contributing Editor: Jamie Domnick Twitter: @JNick9456 Instagram:JNick9456 Currently a student at the University of Wisconsin--Green Bay; double majoring in Democracy & Justice Studies, and History. At the beginning of my college career, I intended to major in Art and then perhaps teach the subject. However, as I continued to take various classes,

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#FreeRosa

#FreeRosa

Imagine a ten-year-old girl is suffering from critical gall bladder pain.  She’s been nauseated, maybe vomiting. Oh, and she has cerebral palsy. Her family takes her to the hospital, she’s changed into a hospital gown, and as the doctors place her under the fog of general anesthesia, a nurse reassures her everything will be okay. Now imagine that same little

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What My Country Can Do For Me

What My Country Can Do For Me

Last week, two days after being laid off from what once looked like a completely secure job, I found myself dialing 9-1-1 and requesting an ambulance for my disabled daughter. From the back of the ambulance, I digitally signed to accept a severance package that was less than what I hoped for, because it kept my family’s insurance active until

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What Color Are America’s Better Angels?

What Color Are America’s Better Angels?

Like so many Americans, we struggle to fathom current events and the ongoing resurgence of racial tensions in our country, and to reconcile them with our personal experience. On the road for Lovin America, we get to know people from every corner and culture in our country as individuals, and acceptance is easy, the exchanges human and inspiring. And yet,

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Here are three key ways you can help fight Trump corruption and defend our Constitution

Here are three key ways you can help fight Trump corruption and defend our Constitution

Launched on the day of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, Free Speech For People is a recognized leader of the movement to challenge big money in politics and unchecked corporate power — and now its team of legal experts is taking on the unprecedented corruption of the White House under President Trump. Here are Free Speech For People’s

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When They Go Low, We Go Local

When They Go Low, We Go Local

They say all politics is local. It’s where the magic happens -- where change happens one vote, one bill, one life at a time. It’s a quaint idea, imagining how truly powerful all of the Leslie Knopes of our country are, toiling day and night on legislation, holding town halls for their constituents, and fighting for what’s right. But is

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Trump hasn’t changed grassroots America

Trump hasn’t changed grassroots America

People 1 – Trump nil This image on the Facebook page for the Progressive Secular Humanist Examiner speaks volumes. And it had me thinking. I’ve been in the United States for almost two months now, have met and talked to hundreds of people, seen thousands – and I’ve only met ONE Trump supporter. A Bulgarian immigrant (go figure). Having visited

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If Nixon Had Twitter

If Nixon Had Twitter

Every time the president logs into his Twitter account, the world tenses up. As his mania flows through his tiny thumbs and out into the Twitterverse, we all get a daily response to the question “What would a madman think of current events?” It got me thinking. Social media may be the dominant form of human communication on the planet,

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RESISTANCE ADVENTURES IN THE TWITTERVERSE

RESISTANCE ADVENTURES IN THE TWITTERVERSE

Before Trump, my personal Twitter account got very little play. I shared the occasional news story or joined a trending event, like the Academy Awards. After Trump, Twitter has become my primary online source for news, outreach and discussion. Twitter is great for this. But if you spend time in the comments section on a divisive topic, you can walk away more depressed

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A Product of My Culture

A Product of My Culture

"I'm a product of my culture. Nobody taught me differently. It's not my fault." This is the weak cry of weak men on social media, insisting that we are not all part of of the #MeToo problem. But at some point, we became adults. We knew what was modeled was wrong. Was unhealthy. Was toxic. Was harmful. Do we really

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A Woman’s Burden

A Woman’s Burden

Women are sponges. Women are dynamic beings. Frankly, we're all dynamic beings. Most of us are, anyway. I believe complexity and the ability to love is what wedges us from the animals. Women, though, are exceptional. Equipped with caution and foreboding, they are usually in sync with any and everything around them. Vigilant of the late-night straggler coming out of

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#MeToo – A Timeline

#MeToo – A Timeline

1973. Mom's a secretary at a state college in Pennsylvania. The man she works for is highly educated, highly respected. She types 90 words a minute. Her shorthand is impeccable. She wears skirts and modest blouses, just as the dress code requires. He tells her how much he likes watching her walk away. From that day on, she no longer

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The Tragedy of Politics

The Tragedy of Politics

I have had a passion for politics for quite some time now, and though I'm well aware as a college student that in the grand scheme of things my opinions don't matter very much, as of late I've grown quite weary of the direction and associated taboos attached to the modern political conversation. I've certainly changed a great deal in

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That Son of a B****

That Son of a B****

Contributing Editor: Jamie Domnick Twitter: @JNick9456 Instagram:JNick9456 Currently a student at the University of Wisconsin--Green Bay; double majoring in Democracy & Justice Studies, and History. At the beginning of my college career, I intended to major in Art and then perhaps teach the subject. However, as I continued to take various classes, I soon discovered my passion for equality and

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