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Commentary
including David Pepper's "Pepperspectives" (a free subscription)

January 13, 2025

When Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight

Award-winning columnist Tony Norman writes about how Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes quitting brings back memories of another cartoonist who was censored.

January 10, 2025

Damn the Democrats' Diffidence

Bulwark Policy Editor Mona Charen thinks Democrats are in a haze. It's time for the opposition to shake it off!

January 8, 2025

How to Dismantle a Democracy in 53 Days

Historian Timothy W. Ryback writes in The Atlantic about how Hitler used the German constitution to shatter the constitution.

January 7, 2025

Congress Has Learned Nothing from Jan 6

In the wake of the peaceful certification of election results, Congress apparently hasn't learned anything from the violence of four years ago.

January 6, 2025

I Was Nearly Killed on Jan 6. Four Years Later, I Feel Betrayed

Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell writes about the people whose lives he protected sided with his attackers. But they weren't the only ones to let him down.

December 22, 2024

We Are On Our Own

Marc Elias of Democracy Docket writes that "Institutions that assured us they would be in the fight for democracy are backing down. [They] are not going to save us. Only we can do that."

December 13, 2024

The People vs Big Corporate Interests

The Ohio Supreme Court refuses to reconsider their 4-3 GOP decision that consumers should expect to find bones in boneless chicken wings.

November 30, 2024

The Fight to Strengthen Liberal Democracy Should be Primary

In her podcast, historian Heather Cox Richardson points out that today’s Conservatives are undermining our country’s central principle: protecting the rights of individuals requires a strong government.

November 27, 2024

Lesson Unlearned: When Political Violence Faces No Accountability

David Pepper compares the dismissal of the January 6 indictments to the warning from our censored past.

November 12, 2024

The 5 Stages of Grief: Denial

Political cartoonist Kevin Necessary begins a series of cartoons dealing with his reaction to the election.

November 9, 2024

What Would FDR Say About Today's Billionaire Takeover?

David Pepper remembers FDR's 1936 speech calling out "economic royalists."
"Here in America we are waging a war for the survival of democracy."

November 7, 2024

How Did This Happen?

MSNBC's Alex Wagner examines the MAGA themes that drew voters to Trump

November 6, 2024

What Does A Second Trump Presidency Mean For American Democracy?

Veteran federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner considers the possibilities of what comes next

August 26, 2024

How They Broke Education In Ohio

David Pepper writes about turning a top-ranked system of common schools into three broken systems

May 10, 2024

School Vouchers Are Undermining Democracy

Denis Smith believes Republicans using public funds for so-called "school choice" have declared war on public education.

May 3, 2024

The Deep Dishonesty of Dobbs

David Pepper writes that Alito’s majority opinion that the decision will “return the power … to the people” was a poorly concealed attempt to soften the perceived damage.
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April 12, 2024

Ohio's True State of the State: Relentless Corruption, Extremism, and Misrepresentation

David DeWitt writes that Ohio ranks in the bottom half nationwide in education, economy, environment, health care and infrastructure

February 16, 2024

Gov. DeWine and Lt. Gov. Husted Are Dripping With the Stink of Public Corruption

David DeWitt notes that with the latest indictments in the FirstEnergy bribery scandal, "we're left with a state government truly devoted to misrepresenting us."

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