Pope Francis turns 87 on December 17, and he’s got lung cooties, but he’s still going to Dubai next weekend to tell humanity to stop…
Tag: democracy
Former South Dakota Senator Larry Pressler joins the chorus of honest citizens who recognize Donald Trump threatens democracy in America: Pressler has been sizing-up the…
Holly Meyer, who once upon a time reported for the Rapid City Journal and now edits global religion news for Associated Press, reminds us that…
Ohio Republicans tried the same election-rigging trick as South Dakota Republicans did in 2022: anticipating a vote on a constitutional amendment they didn’t like (abortion…
Newly elected Rapid City mayor Jason Salamun is admitting he doesn’t really have a mandate to govern. After beating four other candidates in the June…
Archon Fung and Lawrence Lessig write in Governing how artificial intelligence could manipulate voters in 2024 and produce a President with no genuine democratic mandate: Imagine…
Senate Bill 40 was on its way to expanding democracy, giving South Dakotans the chance to vote at primary on candidates for all statewide elected…
House Bill 1200‘s geographical quota for constitutional amendment petitions would make it practically impossible for citizens to put constitutional amendments on the ballot. But no…
The Bolsonaro insurrection of January 2023 joins the Trump insurrection of January 2021 as empirical evidence of the danger of lying about the results of…
While one ill-mannered moron with a bullhorn screamed obscenities that embarrass responsible parents and patriots, President Joe Biden called America to its senses and its historic…