Democracy Journal

Left-of-center political quarterly. Named Best New Publication by the Independent Press Awards, and described as what Obama's reading by Politico.

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“Democracies do not fail because citizens stop valuing freedom. They fail because citizens lose faith that democratic institutions can deliver the material conditions that make freedom meaningful,” write @NickHanauer and @EricBeinhocker.
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Progressives have been fighting on the neoliberals’ terms. Market Humanism flips that—and provides a winning and more humane narrative. Oh—and a far more prosperous country.
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Can a new economic system repair our broken democracy? @NickHanauer and @EricBeinhocker think so. They lay out their vision in this new piece.
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Workers need labor mobility to make more money, find better job fits, and develop their skills and talents. Non-competes and the threat of legal action prevent this from happening.
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The Supreme Court’s decision to gut what remained of the Voting Rights Act is the latest blow to our democracy. Proportional representation through multi-winner districts would ensure our elected representatives reflect the actual preferences of voters.
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Non-compete clauses show up in contracts across nearly all walks of life and they are incredibly harmful for workers. @superwuster proposes that the next administration ban non-completes, once and for all.
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The next President should promise that every child in America can read by the time they start fourth grade, writes Liam Kerr.
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The true culprit in contentious congressional redistricting isn’t gerrymandering. It’s the existence of single-member districts in the first place. It was never designed to help minority voters.
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Providing workers with the ability to speak up to protect themselves in a potentially dangerous workplace is a starting point in the process to make working people’s lives better.
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To support working people, @kavitapmd proposes creating a national long term care guarantee that gives every worker a measure of protection against the cost of needing help with daily life.
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Millions of working people feel unseen and largely abandoned by both political parties. That frustration leads to extreme political polarization. A Rural New Deal would be a major step forward in demonstrating a serious commitment to working people.
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Every year over 2 million workers are seriously injured at work, and over 5,000 workers lose their lives on the job. Why? Employees have little agency to ensure workplace safety. Let’s fix that, writes @DebbieBerkowitz.
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“The same country that decided, generations ago, that older people should not face old age without a basic income, and that hospital bills should not destroy families overnight, can make just as bold a decision about long term care,” writes @kavitapmd.
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We need a President who is focused on the longer-term future of our country, not just those who vote today. To do so, he or she should invest in wellbeing of the country’s children.
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Before fourth grade, children are learning to read. After fourth grade, they are reading to learn. It is time to make the promise of basic literacy to all Americans and focus on third-grade literacy.
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“Non-competes keep labor costs down, which benefits employers. For precisely the same reason, they harm workers,” writes @superwuster. To combat this, non-competes need to be banned.
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To make working people’s lives better we need a rural New Deal, proposes Anthony Flaccavento of @RurUrbBridge.
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To make working people’s lives better we must fix the Federal worker safety law to prevent workers from being killed and injured on the job, argues @DebbieBerkowitz.
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[Alex Jacquez @AlexSJacquez]

Apropos of nothing, read my piece in @DemJournal from March calling for an American Health Service and universal primary care

[Rᴏʙᴇʀᴛ L. Tsᴀɪ @robertltsai]

Partisan and racial gerrymandering is exploding around the country. Our national government is becoming less representative than ever. I’m reupping my @DemJournal essay on the Founders’ essential mistake, “Not popular enough”