U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe began her written order with a quote from George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” and compared the Trump administration to the book’s totalitarian regime’s Ministry of Truth, which revised historical records to align with its own narrative.
Historian William Horne looks back at a letter written by a Bucks County teacher to President Lincoln’s Secretary of War to draw lessons for today about resistance in the face of white supremacist threats to democracy.
Sarah Baik believes it’s time to put the small “d” democratic back in the big “D” Democratic primaries.
“The SAVE America Act would create sweeping new ‘show your papers’ residency and voter ID requirements that could block hundreds of thousands of eligible Pennsylvanians from participating in our democracy,” said Amy Widestrom, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania.
When young people choose peaceful civic action over cynicism or apathy, that’s not something to dismiss or attack. It’s something to celebrate.
