Questions of Civic Proportions: What do we want when we call for better civics?

It’s that time of year again. It might be unique to election years. Let’s all join hands or shake our fists or whatever it is you do when we join together to call for better civics. Our country is falling apart, y’all. If only there were an

Surviving Election 2020: How will you resist the "prophets of doom?"

Surviving Election 2020: How will you resist the “prophets of doom?” Frederick Douglass’s vision for the United States in 1869 can help. Like everyone else, I’m trying to distract myself from the headlines. I have always been serious about following the news as a concerned citizen, but the