Bernie Sanders keeps trying to say “democratic socialism” is different from pure socialism. Is pure socialism so bad that it needs a clarifying adjective to make it sound more palatable as “democratic socialism”? Socialism has its roots in “The Communist Manifesto,” written by Karl Marx and Friedrich […]
During President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment trial, we’ll hear a lot of talk about our rules for governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we’ve become a democracy, it would […]
When Mrs. Powel asked Benjamin Franklin at the end of the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 what sort of government they had created, he replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.” A “democratic republic” he meant. […]
Critics and Democrats claim Republican leaders in the North Carolina General Assembly “assaulted democracy” when they called for two legislative veto override votes early last Wednesday morning when only 64 of the 120 House members […]
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