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From the left, the right and in between, we writers, academics and activists are joining together to defend liberal democracy and confront the danger facing America.

In an "Open Letter in Defense of Democracy,” over 40 former political rivals argue that Donald Trump and the Republican Party backing him are a threat to democracy. Todd Gitlin and William Kristol, co-authors of bipartisan letter, join Lawrence O'Donnell to explain why “democracy is close to being on life support.”

There was the united stab listen up the wall street journal refusing to publish these types of people. but no, its the collapse of the elites and they know a lot about this in history, and i think the other countries know about the establishment that collapsed before this kind of authoritarian populism. that really make it sound dangerous. and then for one whole party to be found they did by it is particularly dangerous. >> professor todd gitlin, youve written so much of ron the years that moved...

The future of democracy in the United States is in danger.

Big Week for BDS The Irish writer Sally Rooney has rejected an Israeli publisher’s request to translate her newest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You.

The Forwards listing of all articles written by Todd Gitlin

Like Sally Rooney, I am appalled by Israels occupation. That doesnt mean an Israeli publishing house should be denied a translation contract.

Who is behind The Pillar, the newsletter rocking the Catholic Church? Why is a Catholic Substack causing so much controversy? The Pillar claimed to have personal phone data about a high-ranking Catholic administrator at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops using Grindr. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay/Creative Commons July 29, 2021 (RNS) — When a conservative newsletter called The Pillar published a story last week alleging to have cellphone data indicating that Monsignor Jeffrey Burril...

The Biden administrations clear hostility toward the Cuban people is part of a long "progressive" tradition. Fri Jul 16, 2021 Editors’ note: As we witness the Cuban people taking to the streets to confront the barbaric communist regime that has tortured them for decades, we witness the leftist Biden administration -- and leftist groups such as Black Lives Matter -- signal support for Cubas Stalinist tyranny and engage in a callous disregard for the Cuban people. Its no surprise, for i...

By Jonah Raskin | Near the end of his days as a cultural revolutionary, Abbie Hoffman explained, facetiously, that he was to blame for crime in the streets, kids acting out, and drug addiction. He was reacting to the ongoing assaults on the Sixties and the smears on his own personality. Even before the decade of the 1960s ended, critics of the counterculture and the anti-war movement lambasted radicals, feminists, and left-wing ideologists for creating anarchy and fomenting chaos. Over the pas...