The GOP proposals sweeping the country that restrict the teaching of race have an obvious purpose: to make teachers feel perpetually on thin ice, so they shy away from difficult discussions about our national past rather than risk breaking laws in ways they cannot themselves anticipate.
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Our Democracy Is at Risk!
Our Democracy is in serious risk of failing! It’s easy to see how it happened, why vote when it seems like nothing ever changes. So, twenty percent of the population isn’t even registered to vote! Our voting system is based upon one person, one vote. And of the voting population, only sixty-seven percent of those eligible voters voted in the 2020 election! That was the highest voter turnout in the 21st century. Many third world countries have voting participation approaching 90%. The largest number of people who didn’t participate in the voting population was our youth.
Letters to the editor: Gov. DeSantis policies nauseate
These were a couple of opinions recently published in the Palm Beach Post.
The Year that Was – 2022
2022 is the year THAT WAS. It was the year that we retained our democracy; or, it was the year that we lost our democracy. The words of Thomas Paine, the famous pamphleteer during the American Revolution, ring true today:
Our constitutional crisis is already here
The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves. The warning signs may be obscured by the distractions of politics, the pandemic, the economy and global crises, and by wishful thinking and denial. But about these things there should be no doubt:
Texas and Supreme Court should be ashamed!
I’m not pro-murdering babies. I’m pro-Becky who found out at her 20-week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs.
Hold Trump accountable in order to heal
Republican like Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL, argue that the impeachment trial will increase partisan divisions [“Trump’s sway over GOP put to test,” Jan. 26]. Where were they the last four …
Renaming a state prison after Trump is more appropriate
This is the first time that I have written to Voice of the People, and I have never participated in any protests my entire life. I’m in my 80th year. …
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Republicans want to name Highway 27 after Trump!
Highway 27 divides our beautiful Florida almost in half, right down the middle. Is that why a Florida representative wants to name it Trump Highway? Because our former president was a great divider?
The House Should Go Big in Framing Impeachment Articles Against Trump
By Carolyn Eisenberg Ms. Eisenberg is a professor of United States history and foreign policy at Hofstra University. For House Democrats, there is a powerful temptation to narrow the grounds for …
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