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There's another front in Trump's war on free speech: West Point | Opinion

Bakken v. West Point is not an isolated incident. The Pentagon recently insisted that reporters covering the military needed to sign agreements that they would report only what the government ... Read More

When political rhetoric becomes a weapon

In a recent interview, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared in unequivocal terms that President Donald Trump was “the worst thing on the face of the Earth.” You heard that right. Not a threat to ... Read More

Hamilton: Political violence undermines our democracy

Today, elected officials are often the targets of hateful messages on social media, which can escalate into violence. Town halls and public meetings can turn angry and chaotic. Researchers have ... Read More

How Can We Fix American Democracy?

Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day political debates, has become essentially meaningless: Because you can’t be against it (openly, at least), whatever you ... Read More

Local opinion: A reminder that we still live in a democracy

A democracy is defined as a system of government in which laws, policies, leadership, and major undertakings of a state are directly or indirectly decided by the “people.” What we have is a government ... Read More

This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism

Illiberalism is winning right now. But there is nothing unusual about that. By modern standards, virtually every past society was illiberal. That we now call them illiberal, that exclusion and ... Read More

Only Trump can end the government shutdown, U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin says | Opinion

NK: There's been so much of Trump's agenda that your constituents have begged Democrats to push back on, and as the minority, you have so little power to do that. This is one of the few opportunities ... Read More