MinnPost: Political divisiveness calls for master reform
Jeanne Massey in MinnPost Our current state of extreme divisiveness didn’t start under the current presidency, but it has certainly intensified. The accelerating polarization we are experiencing is not just something we feel and believe to be true; the data show that...
Star Tribune: Minnesotans: Don’t be the spoilers in 2020.
Lori Sturdevant in the Star Tribune With no real hope of winning, third-party presidential candidates serve as spoilers. They thwart majority rule, undermine the winner’s legitimacy and risk an undesirable outcome. Even when they bring worthy issues to the fore (see...
New York Times: Democracy in Crisis
Review of Larry Diamond’s Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency in the New York Times. China today holds as many as a million Uighurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in “political education” camps. Across...