Matt Watkins is a Chicago-based public affairs and communications consultant and a Civic Nation Change Collective fellow. He writes the monthly column “Watch Your Language” for The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and his work has appeared in Slate, Governing, and The Progressive, among other publications.
July 4 is America’s birthday and the first anniversary of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the health care cuts that followed.
Christoper Nolan’s epic film is enlightened, not woke.
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The National Collaborative for Health Equity’s Annual Heart of America Survey shows Americans worrying about economic pressure and craving leaders who end polarization.
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The senator from purple Georgia is leading in polls and fundraising without picking a fight with party progressives. Maybe there’s a lesson there.
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The 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner, an anti-slavery Republican, by a pro-slavery U.S. Representative Preston Brooks was a step on the road to the Civil War and has echoes in our own violent times.
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Andy Burnham has built his political identity around Britain’s neglected industrial communities. His premiership may depend on whether he can deliver for them.
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The agency’s subtler tactics in recent months aimed to lull citizens into complacency. Arrests, detentions, and deportations have all increased under new DHS Director Markwayne Mullin.
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When President Donald Trump addressed the nation regarding alleged vulnerabilities in the U.S. election system, he proclaimed that “no country can be great without fair and honest elections.” No argument there. What he said, however, was mostly not new, and what was new was riddled with overstatement and exaggeration. While he promised the truth lay in a document dump to be posted online, the papers, upon examination, do not contain significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in election systems. If his purpose was to undermine the midterm elections, which he desperately needs to win and is almost sure to lose, it…
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