We Need a Bigger Boat to Revitalize U.S. Democracy—Here Are Three Ways We Can Start Building It
Democracy’s defenders have lost as much ground as we have gained in the Trump Era. We can’t whistle past this reality. We can’t assume that, if we just keep doing what we have been, only with more urgency and funding, we will succeed. It is time for a new theory of change. To paraphrase Chief Brody in Jaws after his first glimpse of the massive shark, we are going to need a bigger boat to revitalize U.S. democracy.
We Are Not As Polarized As We Think
Recent studies suggest the political divisions between Americans are not as wide and as deep as we have been led to believe.