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Opinion: Jan. 6 And Uvalde Massacre Highlight How Violent Gun Culture Undermines Democracy
The gun, in many ways these days, has become the symbol and means of tyranny, a tool for taking down democracy.
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Opinion: How Republicans Distort Founders’ Meaning, Mission of Freedom
The founders conceptualized freedom as a social mission, a social obligation, the chief goal of which was to serve the public good, not one’s narrow private interests.
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Opinion: Why The Founders Could Not Have Devised A Trump-Proof Democracy
Writing in 1782, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine exclaimed, “We are now really another people.” What Paine meant, in part, was that the new republican form of government required a new and different kind of person, a new kind of citizen. People were used to being subjects of the Crown, ruled…
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Trump’s Failure to Pay Taxes is Deeply at Odds with the Nation’s Founding Values
Ignoring the greater good, Trump has shown himself to be far more interested in using the people’s government to serve his private interests