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Politics

Democrats and Anti-Trump Conservatives Must Join Forces to Defend Democracy

But the wounds of the Reagan and Bush years have created a stark barrier to cooperation across ideological lines

June 14, 2021 • by Adam Littlestone-Luria

_____ When Mitt Romney voted to convict then-President Trump in his 2020 impeachment trial, he stepped forward as an icon of truth in a party increasingly committed to lies. Many liberals felt a keen and unexpected thrill, watching Romney, the face of the 2012 Republican Party hold back tears as he ...

Democrats and Anti-Trump Conservatives Must Join Forces to Defend Democracy

The Right

Stop calling the GOP ‘conservative’

That’s the lesson today from Texas.

February 18, 2021 • by John Stoehr

"As the late Rush Limbaugh said, if conservatism animated the Republican Party, there would be no President Donald Trump."...

Education

What You Learn When You Talk to Conservative Students

College professors and college administrations have to do better–we are losing these kids to extremism

February 3, 2021 • by Claire Potter

"We have a tough job in the next four years as we try to rebuild a more inclusive and truly democratic national conversation." - Claire Potter...

What You Learn When You Talk to Conservative Students

Politics

Instead of Focusing on Russian Bounties to the Taliban, Why Doesn’t the U.S. End the Afghan War?

Lawmakers are outraged over a recent story alleging that Vladimir Putin may be paying off Taliban soldiers to kill U.S. troops. But why are those troops still in Afghanistan?

July 14, 2020 • by Sonali Kolhatkar

Unfortunately, this crucial point has been lost amidst the frenzied responses to the story about Russian bounties. Instead, the revelations have fed the tempting narrative that Trump is a stooge of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah -- who is now apparently a stalwart of the ...

North America

The Trump Party Rises from the Ashes of the GOP

Retribution against those who sought to make Trump accountable begins

February 6, 2020 • by Heather Cox Richardson

“The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a ‘high crime and misdemeanor,’” Romney said. “Yes, he did.” The fact that Romney voted yes on one of the articles was really the ...

The Trump Party Rises from the Ashes of the GOP

The Internal Walls in America

Trying to Make Sense of Trump

November 15, 2016 • by Cayla Clinkenbeard

Donald Trump will be our next president, and I am heartbroken. Simon Critchley recently wrote an article for the NY times in which he describes his nausea with this election. The nausea, he says, emerges from the realization that this is not the America that we thought it was. I ...