4+ hour, 4+ min ago  (176+ words) Was this a case of collusion between a sheriff and a judge? Bianco says no, it's just a coincidence, a lucky roll of the dice that Kiel was the duty judge that day assigned to consider warrant requests from police....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (174+ words) A legal drama is playing out right now in Maine over ranked choice voting (RCV), and it will dramatically impact the upcoming governor's race. The Maine state legislature is waiting for a judicial opinion to decide if voters will be…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (177+ words) [Democracy SOS welcomes guest author Meredith Sumpter, President and CEO of Fair Vote. This article is adapted from one that was first published by The Fulcrum.] Twenty-five years ago, a political scientist noticed something changing in American bowling alleys and…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (330+ words) Wars are expensive. Besides causing a lot of killing, terror, and mayhem, wars also take huge bites out of a nation's public treasury. In a classic "guns vs butter" showdown, every dollar you spend on war is one less dollar…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (1156+ words) Democracy SOS AI authoritarianism and flailing US democracy Trump has undermined US democracy on multiple fronts; the Iran war is the latest I'm sure many Democracy SOS readers are following the bizarre trajectory of the invasion of Iran. Here at…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (524+ words) Now that media standard is in freefall, and the downward slide has been abetted by a disturbing trend: the purchase of media flagships by wealthy American aristocrats. "Freedom of the press" is being rapidly replaced by "freedom of oligarchs to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (300+ words) The US economy has been undergoing a profound transformation in recent years. An extraordinary amount of the nation's goods and services are produced by a small group of seven big tech companies " Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta/Facebook, and…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (475+ words) [Dear readers: Democracy SOS depends on reader support. Can you toss a few coins into the cup? Here is a link to our $5/month subscription page. Thank you.] If any city is badly in need of political reform, it's Los…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (228+ words) Here is a link to Jacobs's study, co-authored with Penny Thomas: Where's the evidence supporting Ranked Choice Voting Claims? by Lawrence Jacobs and Penny Thomas. Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 2023. Bizarrely, the conclusions of these three studies are completely…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (248+ words) On January 2, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, a Russian missile attack slammed into a multi-story apartment complex, substantially destroying the building. Two people were killed and around 28 others injured. The bodies of a woman and a three-year-old child were found in the…...