Millions of Americans breathed a huge sigh of relief after the off-year election took place on November 4, 2025. Democrats made major headway in elections for Governor in Virginia and New Jersey; in state Supreme Court retention elections in Pennsylvania; in the closely-watched mayoral election in New York City; in other mayoral elections in Connecticut […]
Voting Rights Act
Civics Lessons from the Era of Trump: Part II
Last time, we examined several ways in which we American citizens have been educated about the workings of our government, in large part because of the words and actions of the twice-impeached, four-times-indicted former President, Donald Trump. We looked at three Constitutional Amendments (1, 14 and 25), laws versus norms, pardoning, the importance of the […]
Questions to Ask Ourselves about our Presidential Candidates
Our Head of State – our President – differs in several ways from that of many of our sister nations. Advanced democracies like the United Kingdom, Japan, Sweden and Canada have a constitutional monarchy where political power is shared between a king or queen (usually) and a parliament or similar body. In the Republic of […]