Category: Heather Richardson
Cowardice can be contagious: Governor J.B. Pritzker gives barn-burning speech to energize Democrats
There has been a change afoot in the Democratic Party for a while now as its leaders shift from...
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Lee’s surrender: Defeat without consequences allowed Confederate ideology to embed itself into U.S. law
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General...
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Churchill’s fears of democracy’s decline realized in the American iron curtain built by Trump’s oligarchs
In the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime...
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Tyranny of the majority: Why Obama is advocating for the Constitution’s promise of pluralism
On December 5, in Chicago, former president Barack Obama gave the third in an annual series of...
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Lincoln’s belief in a “government for the people” shaped the course of what was American democracy
On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham. Abraham...
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Eighty years after Bastogne: The defiant spirit of “nuts!” in the face of Trump and democratic erosion
“NUTS!” That was the official answer Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe delivered to the four...
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