Advocacy Center for Equality and Democracy

Through our votes, we not only determine who wins particular elections, but we also point the course for American policy.  As a result of policy decisions over the last 50 years, inequality has increased while social mobility has decreased; more Americans live in poverty; more are incarcerated than ever; foreign policy has caused the deaths [...]

The Washington Post last month featured an important op-ed by Professor Jonathan Turley entitled 10 Reasons the U.S. Is No Longer the Land of the Free.  Its significance comes not from its reporting of American policies that we traditionally thought of as hallmarks of authoritarian regimes – though that is important.  What Turley does that [...]