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Fed up with corporate-rigged politics, ordinary people are working together to win elections

The professional political observers are so fixated on the minutia of Washington-centric politics that they're missing the much bigger story of transformative political changes that have erupted in every region of the country.

From Resistance to Insistence: How to be effective advocates, part 2

A majority of the public almost always blesses new presidents with a honeymoon gift. In a gesture of patriotic fairness, even people who voted against the incoming chief say, "Okay, we'll give you a chance. We'... Read more...

Freaked out by Trump and his menagerie of mutants? Let’s focus our anger–and have a greater impact

In high school, I had a girlfriend who was involved in student government and all sorts of good works. While she paid attention to all that was happening in those years of the early '60s, she essentially was a ... Read more...

Oddities, reflections and vignettes from the cratered road to Election 2016

What an election year. I feel like I've been transported through a cosmic squirrel hole into a baffling political universe where facts are fiction, bizarre is normal, and corruption is a virtue. For example, as... Read more...

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Fed up with corporate-rigged politics, ordinary people are working together to win elections

From Resistance to Insistence: How to be effective advocates, part 2

Freaked out by Trump and his menagerie of mutants? Let’s focus our anger–and have a greater impact

Oddities, reflections and vignettes from the cratered road to Election 2016