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Reflections on MLK Day, 2026
Dr. King's Dream is gone from our politics. But it's still alive in American culture.
Jan 19
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Carol Horton
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Abundance Liberalism: A Spiritual Critique
More clean energy and affordable housing would be great. But humans don't live on technocratic materialism alone
Sep 30, 2025
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Carol Horton
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Context Matters
News coverage of a recent ICE raid at an Omaha meatpacking plant exemplifies how both Reds & Blues selectively erase pivotal facts from their narratives
Aug 4, 2025
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Carol Horton
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Hive Mind
Jul 29, 2024
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Carol Horton
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Can Democrats Break Out of Their Box?
Nov 15, 2024
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Carol Horton
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What's Woke? Part I of a Series
Jun 20, 2022
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Carol Horton
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Fortress Democrat
Mar 5, 2025
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Carol Horton
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Why I'm No Longer a Progressive
Jul 20, 2023
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Carol Horton
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What's Woke? #3: Toxic Femininity & Surveillance Capitalism
Apr 20, 2023
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Carol Horton
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Liberalism in Crisis: Syllabus
Reconsidering American liberalism from the New Deal to the present
Aug 2, 2025
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Carol Horton
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From the New Deal to Neoliberalism, Wokeism, & Trumpism: What happened to American liberalism?
Reassessing the past to make sense of our hyper-polarized present
Jul 24, 2025
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Carol Horton
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Rethinking American Liberalism
Zooming out from the craziness of current events to consider how we got here and where (at least ideally) we might want to go
Jul 17, 2025
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Carol Horton
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Fortress Democrat
Bunkering down into denialism is a dead end strategy
Mar 5, 2025
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Carol Horton
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Can Democrats Break Out of Their Box?
For their own mental health & the good of the country, let's hope so
Nov 15, 2024
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Carol Horton
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Waiting
Where will we be one and a half weeks from today?
Oct 26, 2024
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Carol Horton
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"They're Eating the Cats!"
Memeified demagoguery, the war on the working class, & America's downward spiral
Sep 21, 2024
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