Political parties are not the devil in our political system. Since some of our earliest American elections, party mechanisms have facilitated the joining of aligned interests in a way that allowed individuals to participate more effectively in the political system. When you control for the obvious variables of political corruption – times like Tammany HallContinue reading “Empowering Engagement: The Role of Political Parties”
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Unscripted: The State of Play in American Politics
Over the next few weeks, our politics will be driven by wedge issues – the issues designed to separate us by the smallest of margins and drive us into camps of predictable political action. But those aren’t the issues that really define us as Americans.
Moments in Leadership: Nimitz and the Flight to Nowhere
Sometimes, we should remember that our whole story isn’t written in one failure.
Part of the Possible 