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Retired Generals and Service Chiefs Launch Operation Protect Democracy in Wake of Capitol Attack Group plans to advocate for increased voter access at the federal and state level. But will the legislatures listen? Senior Pentagon Reporter, Defense One The breach of the U.S. Capitol in January and subsequent efforts by states across the U.S. to restrict voting access has spurred a group of retired senior military officials to launch their own counteroffensive: Operation Protect Democrac...

Former Top Military Officials Join Campaign to Restore Confidence in Voting In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo, mostly masked northern Nevadans wait to vote in-person at Reed High School in Sparks, Nev., prior to polls closing. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner) 30 Apr 2021 A new awareness campaign is hoping to draw in more veterans who want to be involved in safeguarding the democratic voting process. Count Every Hero, a nonpartisan organization formed in 2020 to ensure service members and their families c...

Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email Retired Generals and Service Chiefs Launch Operation Protect Democracy in Wake of Capitol Attack Group plans to advocate for increased voter access at the federal and state level. But will the legislatures listen? April 29, 2021 The breach of the U.S. Capitol in January and subsequent efforts by states across the U.S. to restrict voting access has spurred a group of retired senior military officials to la...

2020 galvanized democracy reforms, but more are needed | Opinion Updated Dec 27, 2020; By Morton Kondracke If Bill Gates, Barack Obama, NPR, Amazon and big and small publications can name their best books of 2020, so can I. Everyone in the Biden administration and Congress — and you, too — should read these two: Fareed Zakaria’s “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” and Robert Putnam’s “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.” Both are...

If Bill Gates, Barack Obama, NPR, Amazon and big and small publications can name their best books of 2020, so can I. Everyone in the Biden administration and Congress -- and you, too -- should read these two: Fareed Zakaria’s “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” and Robert Putnam’s “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.” Both are bad-news/good-news books about America’s troubled and deeply divided society, with ideas on how to repair i...