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Just the Facts: Canadian Tariffs

Just the Facts: Canadian Tariffs

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Just the Facts: Are FAA Staff Cuts Causing Current Airport Delays?

Redistricting

Redistricting

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Luke Combs, politics and healing our nation's divide

Donald Trump

Congress Bill Spotlight: Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act

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The worst congressional gerrymanders of the 2020s

Podcast: An Appetite for Corruption with Josh Silver

Podcast: An Appetite for Corruption with Josh Silver
The Fulcrum
By The FulcrumAug 09, 2021
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Who exactly do politicians work for? To answer that, Josh Silver, co-founder and executive director of RepresentUs, joins the latest episode of How to Win Friends and Save The Republic from The National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers.

RepresentUs brings together conservatives, progressives, and everyone in between to pass powerful state and local laws that fix our broken elections and stop political bribery. RepUs seeks to dismantle the root causes of inequities in our democracy and end political corruption, extremism and gridlock.

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AI Is Here. Our Laws Are Stuck in the Past.

Global Lessons, Local Tools: Democracy at Home and Abroad
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Global Lessons, Local Tools: Democracy at Home and Abroad

Project 2025: Impact on the State Department
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Project 2025: Impact on the State Department

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Democracy Is Not a Given—It’s a Daily Fight

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Democracy Is Not a Given—It’s a Daily Fight

Since the start of this semester, I’ve seen a disturbing rise in authoritarian behavior across the country. At the university where I teach, the signs have become impossible to ignore. The government has already cut a huge part of the Department of Education’s funding and power, pulling millions from important research.

This isn’t how most people imagine authoritarianism—it doesn’t usually show up with tanks in the street. It creeps in quietly: at school board meetings, through late-night signing of laws, and in political speeches that disguise repression as patriotism.

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Nurturing the Next Generation of Journalists
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Nurturing the Next Generation of Journalists

“Student journalists are uniquely positioned to take on the challenges of complicating the narrative about how we see each other, putting forward new solutions to how we can work together and have dialogue across difference,” said Maxine Rich, the Program Manager with Common Ground USA. I had the chance to interview her earlier this year about Common Ground Journalism, a new initiative to support students reporting in contentious times.

A partnership with The Fulcrum and the Latino News Network (LNN), I joined Maxine and Nicole Donelan, Production Assistant with Common Ground USA, as co-instructor of the first Common Ground Journalism cohort, which ran for six weeks between January and March 2025.

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While Pledging To Clean Up Toxic Chemicals, EPA Guts Hundreds of Environmental Grants

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While Pledging To Clean Up Toxic Chemicals, EPA Guts Hundreds of Environmental Grants

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration promised to combat toxic “forever chemicals,” while conversely canceling nearly 800 grants aimed at addressing environmental injustices, including in communities plagued with PFAS contamination.

In a court filing, the Environmental Protection Agency revealed for the first time that it intends to cancel 781 environmental justice grants, nearly double what had previously been disclosed.

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