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Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side
“This podcast is a conversation between NICD’s Dr. Timothy Shaffer and Dr. Robert B. Talisse Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Talisse highlights the challenge of what it means to wrestle with the “”democrat’s dilemma:”” the tension between the moral requirement to recognize the equality of political opponents and the moral directive to pursue…
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Protecting Our Democracy – Step One
“You may have missed a hugely important story recently because the media soft-pedaled it. But Congress has just taken a major step toward hand-cuffing the unchecked presidential abuse of power that was a hallmark of the Trump Presidency. Reading against the Jan. 6 mob attack on Congress and what they see as Donald Trump’s disdain…
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Code Red for American Democracy
“For all the uproar among Democrats over restrictive voting laws passed by Republican legislatures in 17 states, Democrats have only recently awakened to the more dangerous threat to American democracy – Republican moves to take partisan control of counting votes and even overturn the popular vote in future elections. But the greater danger to American…
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Voters Slammed by Gerrymander Wars
“Partisan gerrymandering has run so wild and rampant since the 2020 census that, hard to believe, the next Congress promises to be even more sharply polarized and gridlocked than the current Congress, and there’s nothing voters can do about it – unless the courts step in boldly, right away. The media focuses on which of…
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Race in America: A Conversation
Written debate on race in America.
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Voting Rights Today: Founder’s Federalism or the New Jim Crow?
Written debates on voting rights.
