Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

He claimed to be the best friend American farmers ever had. But with the new tariffs and the Iran war dragging out, and the loss of global markets, farm country is not so safe for Trumpers. In fact some angry

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Since so many public schools forbid the teaching of “divisive concepts,” social studies teachers are cut off; they can’t do their jobs. The far right is afraid of education, and teachers are seen as dangerous. But a conference was recently

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It’s not the extremists we’ve got to worry about; tens of millions of ordinary Americans, about 25% of us, support political violence. This according to extensive research and a new book by our guest Professor Robert Pape: Our Own Worst

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Congressman Ro Khanna from California is a powerful progressive populist, one of the most outspoken potential 2028 candidates; I had a chance to interview him on this shorter keepingdemocracyalive.com. If you’re at all curious who this rising star is, give

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It’s a political accusation masquerading as a legal action. The SPLC is one of the most highly regarded and successful anti-hate group organizations in America. Yet they are facing an expensive indictment for allegedly misleading donors. Of course, they openly

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Researchers are beginning to understand why some of us demonstrate what is called “moral courage” and others do not. In fact, most of us actually have a warped sense of our own moral courage. We like to think nothing would

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Colleges and universities are now places where elites are cultivated. They are to fit nicely into the oligarchical system. Working class students are saddled with outrageous debt while the morale of underpaid professors is low. In the 20th century, university

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Her name is Karishma Manzur and, like Abdul El-Sayed, is being hugely outspent by the DNC favored candidate. She and her burgeoning grassroots movement are angry that corporate America manipulates us. Unlike her primary opponent, she does not support ICE,

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The status quo is not getting the job done. People want populism and Trump ain’t it. Then again the Democratic establishment isn’t it either. The Trumpists want us to hate and fear those on the FDR left. Is it working?

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Think fascism is a European import? Guess again: Hitler and Mussolini copied American fascism. Before and after the Civil War, some Americans counted while many did not. Like the European models which followed, the South was such a system: Hierarchy

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