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Can Democracy Still Correct Itself?
Source: Unsplash free images (photographer: Mike Newby)
The simplest definition of Democracy is a government by the people. In democracy, we often talk about elections, majority rule, and voting rights. These are all essential parts of the...
So You Think Your Vote Counts? Some Votes Count More Than Others
$11,200,000,000
Eight, that is how many zeros you need to represent $11.2 billion.
In September, Elon Musk gave $150,000,000 to the Texas Leadership Fund to bolster the flagging campaign of GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton.
If you ar...
How Extremist Religion Feeds Public Execution Spectacles
stf, ASSOCIATED PRESS, “The Last Public Execution in the United States: Rainey Bethea's Hanging, 1936,” Santa Clara University Digital Exhibits, accessed October 14, 2026, https://dh.scu.edu/exhibits/items/show/5256.
There is a long histor...
“Prolife Pete” Hegseth Calls for Live Streaming of a Public Execution
Christian Nationalist, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth
Note to readers: This will be the first of two articles dealing with the announcement that the convicted criminal, Nidal Hasan, will be executed in December on a livestream....
What If We Have Misunderstood the Story of Adam & Eve
Titian: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, oil painting by Titian, c. 1550; in the Prado, Madrid.
Once again, we have been confronted with a story of a woman who has accused seven frat boys of raping her...
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