Operation Oat Milk: A Field Guide to Peaceful Resistance in 2025
By Chris Kremidas-Courtney Portland has once again become a mirror for America’s conscience. In the autumn of 2025, as the…
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The Cost of Checking Out: How Political Withdrawal Weakens Democracy
The impulse to withdraw is understandable. Politics feels toxic and truth seems negotiable. But each quiet exit from civic life…
The Coming AI Crash Could Be America’s Second Chance
By Chris Kremidas-Courtney Donald Trump’s second presidency rests on two intertwined illusions: that technology can save American economic supremacy and…
Strongmen Fade, Democracy Endures: Lessons from Athens and Sparta
Sparta’s moment of dominance burned out in a generation. Athens’ messy democracy still shapes us and must be defended today.…
Threads of Belonging: Rethinking Freedom and Democracy
By Chris Kremidas-Courtney Why Belonging Is the Antidote to Democratic Fragmentation In the Andean highlands, the Quechua concept of pacha…
It’s Adults, Not Kids, Who Are Confused About Gender
The Evidence Is Clear: Kids Know Who They Are By Chris Kremidas-Courtney A new landmark study following more than 900…
Unsafe at Any Speed: The Hidden Dangers of AI Assistants
By Chris Kremidas-Courtney In 1965, Ralph Nader’s book Unsafe at Any Speed forced Americans to face the dangerous truth that…
Fixing the Core of a Broken Republic: Reclaiming American Democracy from the Bottom Up
By Chris Kremidas-Courtney Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive wearing jackboots and carrying flags, at least not at first. It seeps in quietly,…
The Expat Condition: Finding Home in a Broken World
By Chris Kremidas-Courtney The word expatriate once evoked the image of diplomats sipping coffee on shaded balconies in gleaming foreign…
Abundant Futures: How Democrats Can Build a Movement that Delivers
As the United States barrels toward the 2026 and 2028 elections, Democrats face a strategic crossroads: cling to a fracturing…