Our forgetful Secretary of State Steve Barnett appears to have forgotten to publish a copy of the Ballot Question Informational Pamphlet for the primary in…
Tag: democracy
Governor Kristi Noem’s vaunted Executive Order 2022-02 only pretends to ban critical race theory from K-12 schools. The order won’t do what she’ll tell her…
After recovering from that jalapeño-pepperoni pizza with the 82nd Airborne in Poland Friday, President Joe Biden visited Ukrainian refugees at the PGE Narodowy Stadium in Warsaw…
While Governor Kristi Noem bored the Legislature with her incredibly ridiculous misinterpretation of freedom and fake culture-war posturing, President Joe Biden delivered a meaningful speech in…
A casual reader asks me to name the one change I would make to the initiative process. One? Ha! If you review the “People Power Initiative”…
Yeah, yeah, yeah, another off-year election has voters picking Republicans over Democrats for a few elected offices. But get past personalities and party labels, and…
Bloomberg sends Anders Melin to downtown Sioux Falls to look into South Dakota’s facilitation of global corruption. Melin gets the usual a-few-bad-apples downplaying of the…
In an article on the fake audits that fascists are staging around the nation to perpetuate their false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, Governing‘s…
Dr. Bob Burns, the eminence grise of South Dakota political science, rises to the defense of our imperiled democracy and calls on all of us…
You don’t need to be a university professor to recognize that radical right-wingers are threatening to kill democracy in America. But 119 (and counting—they’re still…