My sister in-law Joan Biskupic sure knows how to time a book launch. On the day Wisconsin voters decided the winner of the most expensive state Supreme Court race in history, and Donald Trump became the first former president to be indicted on federal charges, Nine Black Robes -- Inside the Supreme Court's drive to [...]
I nearly danced into my polling place this year, so thrilled by the warm weather and the cheerful busyness of a democracy at work. You don't have to look too far outside of this country to recognize how privileged we are to participate in free and fair elections. We are a young, cantakerous, imperfect, vast [...]
Tomorrow, for the eighth time in an official election, I will cast a vote for my husband. This is exactly the same number of times he has appeared on the ballot, in case you are wondering 😉. In his 32-year career, he has won some elections, he has lost some and he has, like tomorrow, [...]
Democracy is hard and it always has been. Those of us lucky enough to live in one occasionally forget that, while the battle to establish a democracy is finite, the fight to maintain one it is not. Through those struggles – by our military on actual battlefields and by our citizens around the dinner table [...]
I picked up my favorite sticker yesterday and it didn't cost me a dime. Of course, it wasn't free either. We all know that. I earned that sticker by casting my ballot although, even as I proudly stuck it on my sweater, just under my left collar-bone and above my heart, I understood that so [...]