Updates, letters, and notes from the movement.
And I don’t think it’s as simple as America moving left or America moving right. Look at Minnesota. Peggy Flanagan just won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate. She beat Angie Craig, who had considerably more financial resources and represented the more traditional Democratic establishment. And what did Flanagan run on? Universal healthcare. […]
So if America is unraveling, what do we do? I don’t think we’re going to fix this with another political argument. We’ve tried that. We’ve been arguing for years. Everybody’s talking. Nobody’s listening. And somewhere along the way, politics became entertainment. We have teams. We have uniforms. We have celebrities. We have villains. We have […]
Twenty-five years ago, Robert Putnam wrote Bowling Alone. His warning was pretty simple: America was losing the places where Americans actually met each other. Churches. Clubs. Neighborhood groups. Volunteer organizations. Bowling leagues. Places where you didn’t ask somebody who they voted for before you sat down next to them. And now Putnam says it’s worse. […]
America doesn’t need another political tribe. We’ve got enough of them already. Left. Right. MAGA. Progressive. Socialist. Libertarian. Independent. Centrist. Tuned-out and completely fed up. The last thing we need is another group standing in its own corner yelling at everybody else. The Truth Party shouldn’t become the tenth tribe. It should become the meeting […]
Everybody keeps telling us America is divided in two. Red versus blue.Democrat versus Republican.Left versus right. But I’m beginning to think that’s wrong. We’re not divided in two. We’re divided into millions. We’ve become atomized. We live in our own little worlds. We watch different news. We follow different people. We have different algorithms feeding […]
The recent elections may be signaling something bigger than a typical partisan shift. Yes, there was a blue wave in many places. But what caught my attention wasn’t just that Democrats won—it was that a number of candidates from the party’s more progressive wing also won. That has challenged some assumptions inside the Democratic establishment […]