Civics is the key to empower all of us to be more effective agents for bringing about the changes we want to see in our institutions.

Seems like the Russian government has realized they don’t need to go to war when you can make a country destroy itself by convincing half the population that vaccines are dangerous and their government is controlled by child eating pedophiles.

My statement on Afghanistan.

To those who continue to say people disrupting school board meeting are all just actors: 1. For months I watched Charlie Kirk, Scott Pressler, Michael Flynn and others traveling around the country organizing these. Read their social media posts. I saw the enabling subgroups form

My physician wife says she keeps serving antivaxxers because it's the right and compassionate thing to do, and because they're still human, too. But it must be difficult to sustain that care, when the people you care for don't care for you.

It didn’t work. 20 years ago an evil element momentarily, brought us to our knees. But their tactics didn’t last the day. Where they assumed to find panic and fear, the passengers of Flight 93 demonstrated the absolute best of humanity when faced with its worst.

I worry how numb we have become to our near brush with authoritarianism - when it is revealed that there was a memo with a 6 step plan for a coup, and it doesn't even get top of the hour news coverage - let alone consequences for all involved. We are in danger of a repeat folks!

We’re starting to reach the acceptance phase of the pandemic: a time when we must recalibrate our individual risk gauges, which have been completely thrown out of whack My latest for The Atlantic 👇 theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Our democracy faces a crisis that requires action. Now is the moment to reach beyond region, beyond party, beyond self, to save and reinvigorate the sputtering flame of the American idea. That is why we must pass the #FreedomToVoteAct.

“The American experiment is at risk,” says Eric Holder. “The insurrection, the gerrymandering, the voter suppression, the attacks on professional election officials, all of this puts our democracy at risk to a degree we have not seen since the Civil War”

Vexing to me how Nevada could have meetings across the state with the intent to engage & educate the public about #redistricting & then consider calling a redistricting session 2-4 days before starting it. Is that kind of notice anyone's idea of how to best engage the public?!

"These unserious men and women have decided to ride the tiger with no regard to the consequences. Make no mistake: I believe those who seek to undermine democracy should be disqualified from serving in it. They are not patriots; they are insurrectionists." thenevadaindependent.com/article/our-un…

I feel like we're at the point where there's no risk of hyperbole when talking about the threat to democracy posed by Trump's Republican Party. This is nation-ending stuff we're dealing with here and folks better wake up soon. I'll do my part. Think about what yours is.

We all owe a great debt to the Ukrainians. They are reminding us why democracy matters. They are reminding us that it is worth fighting for. And they are reminding us that in this era of fake news and alternative facts, the truth still matters.

.Tom Nichols channels the rage and frustration of watching Putin's war and why it's best to stay calm. This is one strong argument: The only way Putin can save himself from his own fiasco is to bait the West into an attack. Nothing would help him more. newsletters.theatlantic.com/peacefield/p/7…

NEW: Over a dozen Russian-language videos spreading on social media claim to debunk Ukrainian disinfo. But they’re actually part of a disturbing campaign that spreads disinformation by disguising it as fact-checking. A story & 🧵on debunks-as-disinfo: propublica.org/article/in-the…

There is an incredible sense of kindness among the random people I encounter in Kyiv. Many smiles and helping hands. In my 8 years of living here, I’ve never had more strangers strike up a conversation with me. It’s a pretty remarkable reaction to the hardships of wartime.

How to Flood Putin’s “Information Desert” newyorker.com/news/daily-com… via The New Yorker