Democracy in America

There Is Only One Issue In America

Steven Van Zandt | Posted 02.09.2012

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Steven Van Zandt

Yes, we can demonstrate. We can march. We can write and sign petitions to our representatives. We can occupy. But the truth is, other than the value of venting, we're wasting our time.

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Can We Still See and Serve Our True National Self-Interest?

James Bacchus | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Bacchus

The biggest threat to America's future is not foreign competition. It is the political paralysis that keeps us from rising to the challenge of foreign competition.

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A Politically-Polarized Sesquicentennial

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

While we are indeed currently politically divided and somewhat polarized, this is actually our normal state as a nation -- and on the polarization scale, we're nowhere near the "most divided" we've ever been. Far from it.

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Alexis de Tocqueville: Letters From America

Paula Deitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paula Deitz

The Hudson Review has published 40 pages of Alexis de Tocqueville's Letters from America, the back story of Democracy in America, his future classic.

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Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.

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