With 40 million of the 68 million strong Generation Z eligible to vote in 2024 and the rest following over the next few elections, this newest generation to enter the electorate will play an increasingly influential role in our politics.
This past Saturday, we marked the three-year anniversary of an unprecedented and violent attempt to block the peaceful transfer of power, incited by a president who was using the bully pulpit to repeatedly and falsely claim that the election was stolen as
For the past eleven years, I’ve written a New Year’s column listing reasons for optimism. Click and see how I did last year. This year, I do the same. It remains the nature of news and opinion writing that positive developments get short shrift.
How did I get to be a writer, much less now for GoLocal? Where is the connection? It is a story of an opportunity I could not refuse, especially after meeting with Josh Fenton, CEO of GoLocal. His enthusiasm is contagious.
Donald Trump has made a political career of going to the racial well, fully embracing a crabbed blood and soil vision of our nation. His politics at their core are about stoking racial resentments and fear of the other. He doesn’t view us as a nation of