The business community’s silence could accelerate America’s slide into autocracy, warns the founder of the pro-democracy business coalition Leadership Now.
Democracy
Posted inNewsletter
Autocracy Doesn’t Pay
Businesses need democracy to thrive, argues Daniella Ballou-Aares, founder of the business coalition Leadership Now. They should step up to defend it.
Posted inPolitics
The Heart of America Still Beats for Connection
The National Collaborative for Health Equity’s Annual Heart of America Survey shows Americans worrying about economic pressure and craving leaders who end polarization.
Posted inBooks
The UFC Cage Match Theory of Democracy
From plantation apologists to Silicon Valley’s philosopher-kings, a new book tracks how the case for a natural ruling class keeps coming back.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s Election Subversion Plans?
Which ones are most concerning, and how you can save democracy.
Posted inProtecting the Vote
Stopping Trump’s Rolling Coup
An all-too-plausible scenario of how the GOP tried and failed to steal the midterms.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
How to Contain the Oligarchs
Rule by the rich may look inevitable, but history shows it’s not. From ancient Greece to New Deal America to today’s Hungary, democracies have found ways to separate private fortunes from public power.
Posted inForeign Policy
Panetta: Iran War a ‘Terrible Mistake’ and Hegseth Is a ‘Disaster’
Leon Panetta, the last of the wise men, covers the waterfront on where we are and where we must go to save this country.
Posted inGovernment
“The Library is One of the Best Libertarian Arguments for Limited Government”
John Chrastka of EveryLibrary, which fights for library budgets and against book bans, discusses libraries, their central role in our society, censorship—and those drag-queen story hours.
Posted inPolitics
Good News from Hungarians, Astronauts, and the Pope
Strongmen are weaker. Integrity endures. Peace is popular.
