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<\/a><\/p>\nFree Press: Are Conservatives the New Snowflakes?<\/a><\/h2>\nMembers of the right once derided the left for emotional hypersensitivity. Today, they lead the charge to suppress ideas that unsettle them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSlave owners tried very hard to justify themselves. In the early years of the 19th century, wave after wave of preposterous pseudoscience was published to help them rationalize what was obviously wrong but incredibly profitable. Soon, speech criticizing slavery was policed. Books were banned; possession of some, like Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em><\/a>, were criminalized<\/em>. Newspaper owners were targeted, their presses thrown into the river. Abolitionists were lynched and driven from the South. Slave owners\u2019 sublimated guilt was so fragile that they needed soft and hard power\u2014indeed, the entire force of culture and government\u2014to maintain the specious lie that slavery was not only not bad, it was right<\/em>.
\n…<\/p>\nThe Civil War was driven by greed and cruelty, but another way to see it is that it was started rashly and stupidly by men and women who lived in a delusional, paranoid bubble in which they<\/em> were the victims, that they<\/em> were the ones being persecuted (by the North) instead of being the villains who enslaved and raped and killed. Slave owners were monsters, but they were also incredibly sensitive, unable to face what they\u2019d done and terrified of living in a world where they couldn\u2019t keep doing it.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – October 28, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nIn the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G. Harding, giving them control of both Congress and the White House. …<\/p>\n
Once in charge, Republicans rejected the Progressive Era notion that the government should regulate business and protect workers and consumers. Instead they turned the government over to businessmen, believing they alone truly knew what was best for the country.
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… And then, on October 29, 1929, it all came crashing down.
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Black Tuesday began a slide that seemingly would not end. Within two years, manufacturing output dropped to levels lower than those of 1913.
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LAWdork: Full Ninth Circuit keeps Trump’s Oregon National Guard efforts blocked for now, tossing order that sided with Trump<\/a><\/h2>\nThe appeals court voted to vacate last week’s 2-1 order, which had sought to allow Trump to send troops to Portland during litigation.<\/p>\n
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Roosevelt Institute: Building a More Effective, Responsive Government: Lessons Learned from the Biden-Harris Administration<\/a><\/h2>\nWe know the tragic effects of President Donald Trump\u2019s dismantling of the federal government. But the truth is, Trump and Elon Musk alone didn\u2019t break our governing institutions. Even prior to the current administration\u2019s actions, both parties presided over decades of disinvestment in federal government capacity, too often abdicating power to private market forces where public institutions once shaped outcomes in the public interest …<\/p>\n
… As President Franklin D. Roosevelt warned, \u201cDemocracy has disappeared in several other great nations\u2014not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion and government weakness through lack of leadership in government.\u201d<\/p>\n
To avoid that fate, American policymakers must prove that democracy can still deliver\u2014that democratic institutions can operate with urgency to meaningfully improve the lives of ordinary people, and that the government is answerable to the people, not just the monied few. Doing so will require reimagining and building a new, more responsive, and more effective set of federal government institutions, rather than simply restoring what existed before Trump. Future administrations must flip the government\u2019s risk profile away from status quo bias and toward delivering bold, timely, and resonant results for working people.
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Maj. Gen. Randy Manner, US Army (Ret.): I helped lead the National Guard. Troops don\u2019t belong in our cities.<\/a><\/h2>\nWe must not permit this gross misuse of the military to be normalized.<\/p>\n
I served for more than 35 years in the US Army and the National Guard. …
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\nEvery bit of that experience tells me that the deployments we\u2019re currently seeing inside American cities\u2014including Los Angeles<\/a>, Washington DC<\/a>, Memphis<\/a>, Portland<\/a>, and Chicago<\/a>\u2014are not only un-American and wrong, they\u2019re being done at the expense of our young men and women in uniform, their families, and their civilian employers.
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Michele Hornish: Tank Man Had Shopping Bags. She Had a Polka Dot Dress.<\/a><\/h2>\nOne person can make a difference, and everyone should try. ~John F. Kennedy<\/em><\/p>\nLast week, a woman in a polka dot dress stopped traffic in New York City. Her defiant image went viral.<\/p>\n
And reminded me of a man who, on a summer day in 1989, became world famous.<\/p>\n
We still don\u2019t know who he is.<\/p>\n
In the summer of 1989, pro-democracy protestors occupied Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Students and workers and soldiers and teachers had joined together in peaceful protest, seeking democracy, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech. They were joined by more, and more \u2013 and still more people. At its height an estimated one million people occupied the Square \u2013 and their efforts inspired the world.<\/p>\n
But early on June 4, the Chinese government cracked down on those protests in the most gruesome way, sending in armed military and tanks. The government killed hundreds \u2013 some say thousands \u2013 of protestors, shooting some in the back as they fled.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s with that backdrop that we meet Tank Man.
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Members of the right once derided the left for emotional hypersensitivity. Today, they lead the charge to suppress ideas that unsettle them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Slave owners tried very hard to justify themselves. In the early years of the 19th century, wave after wave of preposterous pseudoscience was published to help them rationalize what was obviously wrong but incredibly profitable. Soon, speech criticizing slavery was policed. Books were banned; possession of some, like Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em><\/a>, were criminalized<\/em>. Newspaper owners were targeted, their presses thrown into the river. Abolitionists were lynched and driven from the South. Slave owners\u2019 sublimated guilt was so fragile that they needed soft and hard power\u2014indeed, the entire force of culture and government\u2014to maintain the specious lie that slavery was not only not bad, it was right<\/em>. The Civil War was driven by greed and cruelty, but another way to see it is that it was started rashly and stupidly by men and women who lived in a delusional, paranoid bubble in which they<\/em> were the victims, that they<\/em> were the ones being persecuted (by the North) instead of being the villains who enslaved and raped and killed. Slave owners were monsters, but they were also incredibly sensitive, unable to face what they\u2019d done and terrified of living in a world where they couldn\u2019t keep doing it. In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G. Harding, giving them control of both Congress and the White House. …<\/p>\n Once in charge, Republicans rejected the Progressive Era notion that the government should regulate business and protect workers and consumers. Instead they turned the government over to businessmen, believing they alone truly knew what was best for the country. … And then, on October 29, 1929, it all came crashing down. Black Tuesday began a slide that seemingly would not end. Within two years, manufacturing output dropped to levels lower than those of 1913. The appeals court voted to vacate last week’s 2-1 order, which had sought to allow Trump to send troops to Portland during litigation.<\/p>\n We know the tragic effects of President Donald Trump\u2019s dismantling of the federal government. But the truth is, Trump and Elon Musk alone didn\u2019t break our governing institutions. Even prior to the current administration\u2019s actions, both parties presided over decades of disinvestment in federal government capacity, too often abdicating power to private market forces where public institutions once shaped outcomes in the public interest …<\/p>\n … As President Franklin D. Roosevelt warned, \u201cDemocracy has disappeared in several other great nations\u2014not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion and government weakness through lack of leadership in government.\u201d<\/p>\n To avoid that fate, American policymakers must prove that democracy can still deliver\u2014that democratic institutions can operate with urgency to meaningfully improve the lives of ordinary people, and that the government is answerable to the people, not just the monied few. Doing so will require reimagining and building a new, more responsive, and more effective set of federal government institutions, rather than simply restoring what existed before Trump. Future administrations must flip the government\u2019s risk profile away from status quo bias and toward delivering bold, timely, and resonant results for working people. We must not permit this gross misuse of the military to be normalized.<\/p>\n I served for more than 35 years in the US Army and the National Guard. … One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. ~John F. Kennedy<\/em><\/p>\n Last week, a woman in a polka dot dress stopped traffic in New York City. Her defiant image went viral.<\/p>\n And reminded me of a man who, on a summer day in 1989, became world famous.<\/p>\n We still don\u2019t know who he is.<\/p>\n In the summer of 1989, pro-democracy protestors occupied Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Students and workers and soldiers and teachers had joined together in peaceful protest, seeking democracy, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech. They were joined by more, and more \u2013 and still more people. At its height an estimated one million people occupied the Square \u2013 and their efforts inspired the world.<\/p>\n But early on June 4, the Chinese government cracked down on those protests in the most gruesome way, sending in armed military and tanks. The government killed hundreds \u2013 some say thousands \u2013 of protestors, shooting some in the back as they fled.<\/p>\n It\u2019s with that backdrop that we meet Tank Man.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – October 28, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nLAWdork: Full Ninth Circuit keeps Trump’s Oregon National Guard efforts blocked for now, tossing order that sided with Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nRoosevelt Institute: Building a More Effective, Responsive Government: Lessons Learned from the Biden-Harris Administration<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Roosevelt Institute more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nMaj. Gen. Randy Manner, US Army (Ret.): I helped lead the National Guard. Troops don\u2019t belong in our cities.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nEvery bit of that experience tells me that the deployments we\u2019re currently seeing inside American cities\u2014including Los Angeles<\/a>, Washington DC<\/a>, Memphis<\/a>, Portland<\/a>, and Chicago<\/a>\u2014are not only un-American and wrong, they\u2019re being done at the expense of our young men and women in uniform, their families, and their civilian employers.
\n(Maj. Gen. Randy Manner, US Army (Ret.) more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMichele Hornish: Tank Man Had Shopping Bags. She Had a Polka Dot Dress.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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