866OurVote is a national non-partisan election protection coalition working year round to ensure that voters have an equal opportunity to vote and have that vote count. We provide Americans from coast to coast with comprehensive information and assistance at all stages of voting – from registration to absentee and early voting, to casting a vote at the polls, to overcoming obstacles to their participation. Our volunteers provide voter information, document problems they encounter when voting and work with partners and volunteers on the ground to identify and remove barriers to voting.
ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge’s mission is to foster civic culture and institutionalize democratic engagement activities and programs at colleges and universities, making them a defining feature of campus life. By recognizing colleges and universities for their commitment to increasing student voting rates, through its national awards program, ALL IN encourages higher education institutions to help students form the habits of active and informed citizenship, make democratic participation a core value on their campus, and cultivate generations of engaged citizens who are essential to a healthy democracy.
Anti-Defamation League is a leading anti-hate organization. Founded in 1913 in response to an escalating climate of anti-Semitism and bigotry, its timeless mission is to protect the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment for all. Today, ADL continues to fight all forms of hate with the same vigor and passion. ADL is a global leader in exposing extremism and delivering anti-bias education, and is a leading organization in training law enforcement. ADL is the first call when acts of anti-Semitism occur. ADL’s ultimate goal is a world in which no group or individual suffers from bias, discrimination or hate.
The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that seeks to improve our systems of democracy and justice. We work to hold our political institutions and laws accountable to the twin American ideals of democracy and equal justice for all. The Center’s work ranges from voting rights to campaign finance reform, from ending mass incarceration to preserving Constitutional protection in the fight against terrorism.
The California Center for Civic Participation is a non-partisan, non-profit civic education organization, engaging high school students by sparking their interest with exposure to real excitement of the democratic process. We believe that youth hold so much untapped and unlimited power to change their communities and their world and we exist to expose and nurture that power.
Learn more about the California Center for Civic Participation and volunteer opportunities.
The Center’s mission is to promote an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy. The Center has reached more than 30 million students and their teachers since 1965.
The Center for Civic Education helps students develop (1) an increased understanding of the institutions of constitutional democracy and the fundamental principles and values upon which they are founded, (2) the skills necessary to participate as competent and responsible citizens, and (3) the willingness to use democratic procedures for making decisions and managing conflict.
The Center for Common Ground empowers under-represented voters through non-partisan voter registration and Get Out the Vote. It provide voter information through door knock canvassing, texting, phone-banking. It also provide free rides to the polls on Election Day.
Learn more about the Center for Common Ground and volunteer opportunities.
Center for Election Innovation & Research engages in cutting-edge work to build voter trust, increase voter participation, and improve the efficiency of election administration. Their work helps elections officials maintain accurate and complete voter lists and secure election technology infrastructure.
Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to upholding the core values of American democracy. We work to ensure open, honest, and accountable government; to promote equal rights, opportunity, and representation for all; and to empower all people to make their voices heard as equals in the political process. Common cause works across four major issue areas: voting and elections; money and politics; ethics, transparency and government accountability; and media and democracy.
Learn more about Common Cause and the Common Cause Education Fund.
Democracy North Carolina is a nonpartisan organization that uses research, organizing, and advocacy to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.
ElectionDay.Org engages businesses to provide resources and tools to promote voting within their organizations including information on how to register, voting methods, and relevant deadlines.
Equal Justice Works creates opportunities for lawyers to transform their passion for equal justice into a lifelong commitment to public service. Equal Justice Works is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization and is the nation’s largest facilitator of opportunities in public interest law. Equal Justice Works brings together an extensive network of law students, lawyers, legal services organizations, and supporters to promote a lifelong commitment to public service and equal justice. The organization believes that a community of lawyers committed to public service can fulfill our nation’s promise of equal justice for all. Following their Fellowships, more than 85% of Equal Justice Works Fellows remain in public service positions, continuing to pursue equal justice for underserved communities.
Learn more about Equal Justice Works and available volunteer opportunities.
The Election Official Legal Defense Network (EOLDN) is a project of the nonpartisan, nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research. EOLDN connects licensed, qualified, pro bono attorneys with election administrators who need advice or assistance. Election workers from all over the country, at the state and local level, can contact EOLDN via this website or by phone (1-877-313-5210) at any time, to request to be connected to a lawyer who can help them, at no cost. This service is available regardless of the election official’s political affiliation, or whether they work in a blue or red state or county.
Learn more about Election Official Legal Defense Network and available volunteer opportunities.
FairVote is a nonpartisan organization seeking better elections for all. They research and advance voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative for every American. FairVote has a proven record since 1992 as a nonpartisan trailblazer that advances and wins electoral reforms at the local, state and national level through strategic research, communications and collaboration. Today, we are the driving force behind advancing ranked choice voting and fair representation in multi-winner legislative districts that will open up our elections to better choices, fairer representation and more civil campaigns.
HeadCount is a non-partisan organization that uses the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy. HeadCount uses a grassroots approach to reach young people and music fans at concerts and online to inform and empower. Like music and democracy? Come work (or volunteer) with us!
Learn about how to be involved at a concert or event near you.
Indivisible is committed to providing civic education, policy resources, strategic guidance, and targeted trainings for groups across the country. It educates and empowers civic leaders at the community level across the country.
Learn more about Indivisible and volunteer opportunities available in several states.
Leaders We Deserve is a grassroots organization dedicated to electing young progressives to Congress and State Legislatures across the country to help defeat the far-right agenda and advance a progressive vision for the future.
The League of Women Voters of the United States encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
The Lincoln Project is a leading pro-democracy organization in the United States — dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy. The Lincoln Project launched with two stated objectives. The first was to defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box. The second was to ensure Trumpism failed alongside him. As we have seen, our fight against Trumpism is only beginning. We must combat these forces everywhere and at all times. Our democracy depends on it.
Learn more about The Lincoln Project and available volunteer opportunities.
People For the American Way Foundation conducts research, legal, and education work on behalf of First Amendment freedoms and democratic values; monitors, exposes, and challenges the Religious Right movement and its political allies; identifies, trains, and supports the next generation of progressive leaders through its Young People For youth leadership programs and its Young Elected Officials Network; and carries out nonpartisan voter education, registration, civic participation, and election protection activities.
Project Vote is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded on the belief that an organized, diverse electorate is the key to a better America. Project Vote’s mission is to build an electorate that accurately represents the diversity of this nation’s citizenry, and to ensure that every eligible citizen can register, vote, and cast a ballot that counts.
Project Vote Smart offers services and programs for political journalists to enhance their coverage of politics and elections. The Project partners with more than 300 national, state, and local news organizations, all endorsing Project programs. In addition to comprehensive databases on more than 40,000 candidates and incumbents, the Project provides journalists with special research services and publications. We devote considerable effort to researching information about all candidates for presidential, congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative office and elected officials. Voters thus have access to unbiased information on candidates as well as those serving in elected positions.
Learn more about Project Vote Smart and available volunteer opportunities.
The Public Citizen Foundation supports Public Citizen’s education, litigation, research, and public information activities. Public Citizen is a national consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts. Public Citizen fights for openness and democratic accountability in government, for the right of consumers to seek redress in the courts; for clean, safe and sustainable energy sources; for social and economic justice in trade policies; for strong health, safety and environmental protections; and for safe, effective and affordable prescription drugs and health care.
Learn more about Public Citizen and available opportunities.
Rideshare2Vote was created to increase the voice and power of people by expanding their civic engagement and voting rights. We have created a voter touch outreach field program that includes our transportation service specifically for Democratic and progressive voters. Rideshare2Vote focuses our work in disenfranchised communities; voting for the first time; who are not voting in every election; that are disabled; living in poverty and who are elderly.
Learn more about Rideshare2Vote and available volunteer opportunities.
Fusing pop culture, politics, and technology, Rock the Vote works to mobilize the millennial voting bloc and the youth vote, protect voting rights, and advocate for an electoral process and voting system that works for the 21st century electorate. For almost 25 years, Rock the Vote has pioneered ways to make voting easier by simplifying and demystifying voter registration and elections for young adults.
Learn more about Rock the Vote and available volunteer opportunities.
The Andrew Goodman Foundation makes young voices and votes a powerful force in democracy. Our ability to spark their passion — today — will result in change, tomorrow. The Andrew Goodman Foundation supports youth leadership development, voting accessibility, and social justice initiatives on campuses across the country with mini-grants to select institutions of higher learning and other financial assistance to students.
Our vision is that young people will become active, engaged citizens who ensure a just democracy and sustainable future. Join us during this critical time for American democracy and help shape the next generation of civic leaders.
Learn more about The Andrew Goodman Foundation and available volunteer opportunities.
The Center for Public Integrity is dedicated to producing original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern. The mission of the Center for Public Integrity is to protect democracy and inspire change using investigative reporting that exposes betrayals of the public trust by powerful interests. To pursue its mission, the Center generates high-quality, accessible investigative reports, databases, and contextual analysis on issues of public importance; disseminates work to journalists, policymakers, scholars, and citizens using a combination of digital, electronic, and print media; and educates, engages, and empowers citizens with the tools and skills they need to hold government and other private institutions accountable.
The Civics Center is dedicated to building the foundations of youth civic engagement and voter participation in high schools through education, organizing, and advocacy. We support student-led, peer-to-peer voter registration and pre-registration efforts in high school communities.
Learn more about The Civics Center and available volunteer opportunities.
TurnUp is non-profit organization and mobile app that comprises the largest youth-led voter registration and turnout initiative. TurnUp’s 2024 election engagement plans include four integrated programs that work together to increase youth voter registration and turnout: physical registration and turnout drives; relational registration and turnout drives; grassroots organizing; and digital campaigns. TurnUp has Volunteer and Internship positions for high school, college, and recent graduates.
VoteRiders is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with a mission to ensure that all citizens are able to exercise their freedom to vote. VoteRiders informs and helps citizens to secure their voter ID as well as inspires and supports organizations, local volunteers, and communities to sustain voter ID education and assistance efforts. VoteRiders offers a variety of volunteer options including virtual and on the ground positions.
When We All Vote is a leading national, nonpartisan initiative on a mission to change the culture around voting and to increase participation in each and every election by helping to close the race and age gap. Created by Michelle Obama, When We All Vote brings together individuals, institutions, brands, and organizations to register new voters across the country and advance civic education for the entire family and voters of every age to build an informed and engaged electorate for today and generations to come. We empower our supporters and volunteers to take action through voting, advocating for their rights, and holding their elected officials accountable.
Learn more about When We All Vote and available volunteer opportunities.
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This Wednesday, February 4, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Ronald Brownstein who will be in conversation with Patt Morrison (see bios below) on the topic: “THE MIDTERMS RECKONING: WHAT’S LIKELY AND WHAT’S AT STAKE IN 2026” (Register Here)
Ronald Brownstein a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of presidential campaigns, is a senior political analyst at CNN, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and has served as senior editor at The Atlantic. He also served as the national political correspondent and national affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times and covered the White House and national politics for the National Journal. He is the author of seven books.
Patt Morrison has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes as a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist. As a public television and radio broadcaster, she has won six Emmys and a dozen Golden Mike awards. Her first book, “Rio LA,” about the Los Angeles River, was a bestseller. Her most recent book is “Don’t Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice, and the American Newspaper.”
New York Times/Opinion
By The Editorial Board
January 31, 2026
Trump Could Interfere with the Midterm Elections. You Can Help Defend Them.
Election integrity in the United States can be a fraught subject. Merely raising the prospect that a future election might be compromised makes many democracy experts uncomfortable. It can undermine faith in our reliable, well-run election system and amplify the false claims about fraud that often come from President Trump. Even people who respect the sanctity of elections sometimes malign them. Many Democrats, for example, have wrongly suggested that voter-identification laws undermine the system by causing large declines in turnout.
In truth, American elections have never been more reliable or accessible. For every election, thousands of principled election officials painstakingly update voter rolls, mail information to households, train poll workers, oversee voting and transport ballots with a documented chain of custody. Voter fraud is extremely rare, and voter turnout in the past two presidential elections reached higher levels than in any other over the previous century.
Yet it would be naïve to assume that the status quo is guaranteed to continue. The sanctity of the 2026 elections is indeed under threat. And the reason is Mr. Trump.
He has repeatedly demonstrated his willingness to interfere with elections to benefit himself and his party. He has broken the law to do so and broken longstanding bipartisan traditions. Since he entered politics a decade ago, he has suggested that election outcomes are fair only if his side wins. In 2020, after he lost the presidential election, he attempted to direct a sprawling conspiracy to overturn the result. As it was failing (thanks to the honesty of election administrators from both parties), he encouraged protesters to march to Congress when it was meeting to certify his defeat — and later celebrated their violent attack.
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Wall Street Journal/Opinion
By
Kenneth L. Marcus
January 28, 2026
Does Qatar Fund Antisemitism at American Campuses?
A court order in a case against Carnegie Mellon illustrates the danger of foreign influence.
The Education Department’s recent launch of a portal for universities’ foreign-funding disclosures was even timelier than officials likely realized. Newly disclosed evidence, unsealed earlier this month in federal court, demonstrates that foreign funders may be exerting the kind of outsize, hidden and nefarious influence on university programs that critics have long feared. The details demand congressional action to protect Americans’ rights.
On Jan. 6, a federal district court in Pennsylvania unsealed a court order in Yael Canaan’s suit against Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. Ms. Canaan alleges that the university harbors a culture of antisemitism and discrimination—in part due to the influence of more than $1 billion from Qatar and its affiliates. Carnegie Mellon denies Ms. Canaan’s allegations, including that it is influenced by Qatar, which hosts its Doha campus. But based on eye-opening university documents, the court on Dec. 5 rejected the school’s argument and ordered CMU to produce many of the documents Ms. Canaan requested. …
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If you missed today’s program featuring Dennis Ross in conversation with Warren Olney, you can watch the program at THIS PAST EVENTS LINK. The program will post a few hours after it ends. Starting Friday morning, you can listen AT THIS PODCAST LINK
On Wednesday, February 4, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Ronald Brownstein who will be in conversation with Patt Morrison (see bios below) on the topic: “THE MIDTERMS RECKONING: WHAT’S LIKELY AND WHAT’S AT STAKE IN 2026” (Register Here)
Ronald Brownstein a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of presidential campaigns, is a senior political analyst at CNN, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and has served as senior editor at The Atlantic. He also served as the national political correspondent and national affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times and covered the White House and national politics for the National Journal. He is the author of seven books, most recently, “Rock me on the Water,” about the confluence of music, movies, television and politics, and “The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America.”
Patt Morrison has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes as a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist. As a public television and radio broadcaster, she has won six Emmys and a dozen Golden Mike awards. Her first book, “Rio LA,” about the Los Angeles River, was a bestseller. Her most recent book is “Don’t Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice, and the American Newspaper.”
Washington Post/Opinion
By George F. Will
January 27, 2026
Americans should not trust ICE.
Kristi Noem isn’t the only reason.
Assume this loutocracy’s statements on its deportation mania are lies until proven otherwise.
When Kristi Noem was — what? informed? reminded? — that her meeting with North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un, which she reported in a prepublication manuscript of her memoir, never happened, this did not ruffle her sang-froid. She placidly said that the “anecdote” about the meeting would be “adjusted” before the book was published.
Today, Noem, a former member of Congress and former governor of South Dakota, is secretary of homeland security, under whose supervision Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates. There are, however, many reasons, beyond Noem’s nature, that multiplying millions of Americans do not and should not trust ICE.
Much has been said about the social ripples from what began with the introduction of the smartphone. Some consequences, such as instant access to torrents of information, are excellent. Others, such as addictive access to oceans of rubbish, are awful. But an insufficiently appreciated benefit of this device is that most Americans most of the time are carrying video cameras.
Governments around the world are using myriad technologies, some of them sinister, to surveil their populations. U.S. governments — national, state local — are not impervious to the temptation to overdo this. But today, a salutary effect of the ubiquity of smartphones is the surveillance of the government by citizens. Including those exercising their constitutional right to petition government for redress of grievances, and people watching other people do this.
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Wall Street Journal/Opinion
By
Kenneth L. Marcus
January 28, 2026
Does Qatar Fund Antisemitism at American Campuses?
A court order in a case against Carnegie Mellon illustrates the danger of foreign influence.
The Education Department’s recent launch of a portal for universities’ foreign-funding disclosures was even timelier than officials likely realized. Newly disclosed evidence, unsealed earlier this month in federal court, demonstrates that foreign funders may be exerting the kind of outsize, hidden and nefarious influence on university programs that critics have long feared. The details demand congressional action to protect Americans’ rights.
On Jan. 6, a federal district court in Pennsylvania unsealed a court order in Yael Canaan’s suit against Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. Ms. Canaan alleges that the university harbors a culture of antisemitism and discrimination—in part due to the influence of more than $1 billion from Qatar and its affiliates. Carnegie Mellon denies Ms. Canaan’s allegations, including that it is influenced by Qatar, which hosts its Doha campus. But based on eye-opening university documents, the court on Dec. 5 rejected the school’s argument and ordered CMU to produce many of the documents Ms. Canaan requested.
Graphic journalism can change the world. It did so in May 1963, when Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor, commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Alabama, used body-slamming fire hoses and snarling dogs against young Black civil rights demonstrators. The nation was appalled and, as important, embarrassed by photos and videos of what was being done in its streets by government.
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Tomorrow, THURSDAY, January 29, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Ambassador Dennis Ross who will be in conversation with Warren Olney (see bios below) on the topic: “ISRAEL, GAZA AND THE MIDDLE EAST: WHAT LIES AHEAD?” (Register Here)
Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Ambassador Ross has played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. Dennis Ross has published seven books relating to diplomacy.
Warren Olney was the host and executive producer of the nationally syndicated weekday afternoon program “To the Point,” which originated at NPR-affiliate, KCRW. Olney and his programs have been honored with nearly 40 national, regional and local awards for broadcast excellence.
Haaretz/Opinion
By Ethan Nechin
January 26, 2026
In a Menacing U.S. Moment, History Shows How Dehumanizing Refugees Endangers Jews Too
In June 1940, 10 days after France fell to the Nazis, U.S. State Department Assistant Secretary Breckinridge Long wrote a memo to his colleagues outlining how the United States could halt all immigration from Europe.
The stories about concentration camps and mass displacement reached America’s shores. Yet Long suggested that consular officers “put every obstacle in the way and require additional evidence and to resort to various administrative advice which would postpone and postpone and postpone the granting of visas.”
Long’s position reflected widespread American hostility to immigration. Then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt warned that enemy agents could infiltrate the country and suggested many Jewish refugees might be among them. Meanwhile, populist figures like far-right radio host Father Charles Coughlin justified the widespread Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938 as Christian retaliation against Jews. Days later, his supporters yelled at a rally: “Send Jews back where they came from in leaky boats!”
Despite Jews not facing the same circumstances, it is hard not to see the same patterns emerging today. Back then, America’s nativist turn and its desire to remain “neutral” – even as it built internment camps for Japanese, Italian and German immigrants and turned away ships of refugees – sealed the fate of millions. Today, U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda has threatened millions again.
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New York Times/Opinion
By Ezra Klein
January 25, 2026
Trump Just Proved Carney’s Point
“Dear Prime Minister Carney,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Everything Trump has done over the last week has made him look tawdry, addled and small. He began his latest play for Greenland by complaining about being passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize and ended it by disinviting Mark Carney from his “Board of Peace.” For Trump, nothing — not even peace — transcends his brutish transactionalism.
Coolly assessing that transactionalism is what landed Carney in Trump’s sights. Two things stood out to me about the speech that Carney gave at Davos last week. First, Carney’s speech used the word “hegemon” four times. He said the word “America” only once, and then only to specify “American hegemony.” This is who we are now to our northern neighbors: Not the America they once knew, or thought they knew, but “the hegemon.”
This THURSDAY, January 29, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Ambassador Dennis Ross who will be in conversation with Warren Olney (see bios below) on the topic: “ISRAEL, GAZA AND THE MIDDLE EAST: WHAT LIES AHEAD?” (Register Here)
Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Ambassador Ross has played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. Dennis Ross has published seven books relating to diplomacy.
Warren Olney was the host and executive producer of the nationally syndicated weekday afternoon program “To the Point,” which originated at NPR-affiliate, KCRW. Olney and his programs have been honored with nearly 40 national, regional and local awards for broadcast excellence.
New York Times/Opinion
By Ezra Klein
January 25, 2026
Trump Just Proved Carney’s Point
“Dear Prime Minister Carney,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Everything Trump has done over the last week has made him look tawdry, addled and small. He began his latest play for Greenland by complaining about being passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize and ended it by disinviting Mark Carney from his “Board of Peace.” For Trump, nothing — not even peace — transcends his brutish transactionalism.
Coolly assessing that transactionalism is what landed Carney in Trump’s sights. Two things stood out to me about the speech that Carney gave at Davos last week. First, Carney’s speech used the word “hegemon” four times. He said the word “America” only once, and then only to specify “American hegemony.” This is who we are now to our northern neighbors: Not the America they once knew, or thought they knew, but “the hegemon.”
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New York Times/Opinion
By Radley Balko
January 21, 2026
I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years.
What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
Police agencies in the United States kill more than 1,000 people each year. After many of those deaths, the agencies involved put out statements. Those statements often use what’s known as the exonerative voice to minimize officers’ involvement. The first statement from the Minneapolis Police Department after George Floyd’s death, for example, said that the officers at the scene “noted that he appeared to be suffering from medical distress.” Quite the understatement. These communications often cast events in a light most favorable to the officers involved, sometimes to the point of deception. Too often, they’ll try to smear the deceased by citing a criminal record or suggesting a drug addiction or gang affiliation.
I have been covering policing for more than 20 years and have read and parsed a lot of these statements. The Department of Homeland Security’s response after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis this month is something else entirely.
For all their flaws, typical communications from police officials usually include a modicum of solemnity. There are assurances that there will be a fair and impartial investigation, even if those investigations too often turn out to be neither. There’s at least the acknowledgment that to take a human life is a profound and serious thing.
The Trump administration’s response to Ms. Good’s death made no such concessions.…
If you missed today’s program featuring Jonathan Blitzer in conversation with Patt Morrison, you can watch the program at THIS PAST EVENTS LINK. The program will post a few hours after it ends. Starting Thursday morning, you can listen AT THIS PODCAST LINK
Next THURSDAY, January 29, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Ambassador Dennis Ross who will be in conversation with Warren Olney (see bios below) on the topic: “ISRAEL, GAZA AND THE MIDDLE EAST: WHAT LIES AHEAD?” (Register Here)
Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role inn shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. Dennis Ross has published seven books relating to diplomacy. His newest book is “Statecraft2.0,” which focuses on what American diplomacy must do to lead in the new multipolar world reality in which the U.S. has multiple military and economic competitors.
Warren Olney was the host and executive producer of the nationally syndicated weekday afternoon program “To the Point,” which originated at KCRW. Olney and his programs have been honored with nearly 40 national, regional and local awards for broadcast excellence. He is the only two-time winner of the Los Angeles Society of Professional Journalists Distinguished Journalist award.
Foreign Affairs
By Daniel W. Drezner and Elizabeth N. Saunders
January 20, 2026
The Unconstrained Presidency and the End of American Primacy
For most Americans and Europeans alive today, a world of anarchy probably never felt quite real. Since 1945, the United States and its allies crafted and maintained an order that while neither fully liberal nor fully international, established rules that kept the peace among the great powers, promoted a world of relatively open trade, and facilitated international cooperation. In the decades that followed, the world became more stable and prosperous.
Before that long great-power peace, however, anarchy was far from an abstraction in the developed world. The first half of the twentieth century alone featured two world wars, a global depression, and a deadly pandemic. With weak global rules and weaker enforcement mechanisms, most states had little choice but to fend for themselves, often resorting to military force. But there were still limits to what sovereign states might do in a conflict. Countries were only just beginning to project military power beyond their borders, and information, goods, and people traveled less rapidly. Even during periods of international disorder, states could do only so much to one another without risking their own demise.
Today, the most powerful country is leading the world into a different kind of anarchy. Although U.S. President Donald Trump did not single-handedly bring about the decline of the post-1945 order, he has, in his first year since returning to office, accelerated and even embraced its demise. Trump’s appetite for territorial expansion eviscerates the most powerful post-1945 norm: that borders cannot be redrawn through the force of arms. And his disregard for domestic institutions has allowed him to run roughshod over any attempts at home to check those foreign expansionist dreams.
The anarchy that is emerging under Trump, in other words, is more chaotic. It is closer to the more primitive anarchy of the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes—a world of “all against all,” … (To continue reading click here)
THIS Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Jonathan Blitzer who will be in conversation with Patt Morrison (see bios below) on the topic: “GETTING BEYOND THE BORDER: HOW IMMIGRATION BECAME A POLITICAL CRISIS” (Register Here)
Jonathan Blitzer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, covers immigration, politics, and foreign affairs. He won a 2017 National Award for Education Reporting for “American Studies,” a story about an underground school for undocumented immigrants. He is also the recipient of a 2019 Edward R. Murrow Award; the 2018 Immigration Journalism Prize, from the French-American Foundation; and a Media Leadership Award, from the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He was a 2021 Emerson Fellow at New America. His first book, “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis,” was named one of the ten best books of 2024 by the New York Times. It also received the 2025 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Patt Morrison has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes as a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist. As a public television and radio broadcaster, she has won six Emmys and a dozen Golden Mike awards. Her first book, “Rio LA,” about the Los Angeles River, was a bestseller. Her most recent book is “Don’t Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice, and the American Newspaper.”
NY Times Opinion
M. Gessen
January 18, 2026
One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.
A year into Donald Trump’s second term, friends who live outside the United States continue to express shock at the news that comes from this country, often mixed with concern for my safety. I shrug. Even those of us in the United States who oppose this administration’s actions have a way of normalizing them. On Tuesday, I saw a news release in my inbox: A new filing in the legal case against the construction of the giant immigrant detention facility in Florida. I — like many other Americans, it seems — had almost forgotten about Alligator Alcatraz.
In Europe, attention has been unwavering. Journalists are writing articles and making documentaries about America building a concentration camp. On these shores, we have simply become a country that builds concentration camps. It’s only one of the changes we have absorbed in the last year.
We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads, and even in the courts. Less than a year ago, videos of ICE arrests would go viral and social media posts about ICE sightings would send chills down our spines. Now even the most high-profile detentions have faded from view: Who has been released? Who has been deported? Who is still missing?
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Washington Post/Opinion
George F. Will
January 14, 2026
How to make the midterms slightly less disgusting
Divided government would be good outcome next fall.
This year’s political struggle concerns control of a legislative branch that controls not much (presidentialism through executive orders predominates) or even itself (see its slapdash budgeting). Voters should be disgusted by the empty ritual of choosing, every two years, from a pool of potential legislators who do not seem to mind that they do not matter.
In the 2006, 2010, 2018 and 2022 off-year elections, voters ended an arrangement that they frequently forget is usually unfortunate: the president’s party controlling both houses of Congress. Now, after 12 months with a president unconstrained by his party’s supine congressional majorities, chastened voters might, come November, restore a semblance of checks and balances: divided government.
Party loyalty now eclipses legislators’ institutional pride. So, only divided government can make its Madisonian architecture — the separation of powers; what writer Yuval Levin calls “the deliberate recalcitrance of our system of government” — work.
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Next Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Jonathan Blitzer who will be in conversation with Patt Morrison (see bios below) on the topic: “GETTING BEYOND THE BORDER: HOW IMMIGRATION BECAME A POLITICAL CRISIS” (Register Here)
Jonathan Blitzer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, covers immigration, politics, and foreign affairs. He won a 2017 National Award for Education Reporting for “American Studies,” a story about an underground school for undocumented immigrants. He is also the recipient of a 2019 Edward R. Murrow Award; the 2018 Immigration Journalism Prize, from the French-American Foundation; and a Media Leadership Award, from the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He was a 2021 Emerson Fellow at New America. His first book, “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis,” was named one of the ten best books of 2024 by the New York Times. It also received the 2025 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Patt Morrison has a share of two Pulitzer Prizes as a longtime Los Angeles Times writer and columnist. As a public television and radio broadcaster, she has won six Emmys and a dozen Golden Mike awards. Her first book, “Rio LA,” about the Los Angeles River, was a bestseller. Her most recent book is “Don’t Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice, and the American Newspaper.”
Washington Post/Opinion
George F. Will
January 14, 2026
How to make the midterms slightly less disgusting
Divided government would be good outcome next fall.
This year’s political struggle concerns control of a legislative branch that controls not much (presidentialism through executive orders predominates) or even itself (see its slapdash budgeting). Voters should be disgusted by the empty ritual of choosing, every two years, from a pool of potential legislators who do not seem to mind that they do not matter.
In the 2006, 2010, 2018 and 2022 off-year elections, voters ended an arrangement that they frequently forget is usually unfortunate: the president’s party controlling both houses of Congress. Now, after 12 months with a president unconstrained by his party’s supine congressional majorities, chastened voters might, come November, restore a semblance of checks and balances: divided government.
Party loyalty now eclipses legislators’ institutional pride. So, only divided government can make its Madisonian architecture — the separation of powers; what writer Yuval Levin calls “the deliberate recalcitrance of our system of government” — work.
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New York Times/Opinion
Bret Stephens
January 13, 2026
The Ayatollahs’ Antisemitism Has Undone Iran
Notable among the slogans being chanted by the protesters flooding Iran’s streets is this one: “Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, my life for Iran.” That’s more than a repudiation of the regime’s foreign policy. It’s a reminder that a policy of antisemitism has a way of eventually destroying the antisemite.
Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the regime has had a singular obsession with Jews. The suppurating hatred of Israel is downstream from that.
The foundational political text of the regime, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s “Governance of the Jurist,” is shot through with antisemitism. As in: “From the very beginning, the historical movement of Islam has had to contend with the Jews, for it was they who first established anti-Islamic propaganda.” Iran’s current leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is an avowed Holocaust denier. Though Iran officially tolerates its dwindling Jewish community, the vast majority of Iranian Jews have fled the country, often under perilous circumstances.
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This Wednesday, January14, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Abby Leibman and Bob Greenstein who will be in conversation with Larry Mantle (see bios below) on the topic: “THE POLITICS OF HUNGER: CONFRONTING POVERTY IN A TIME OF DIVISION AND CRISIS” (Register Here)
Abby J. Leibman has been the President & CEO of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger since 2011. Ms. Leibman has spent her career at the forefront of social justice advocacy, including co-founding and leading the California Women’s Law Center. She advises policymakers, nonprofit advocates and community leaders on the barriers and challenges that contribute to economic and food insecurity, including the persistent challenges of the feminization of poverty.
Bob Greenstein is the founder and President Emeritus of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), which he launched in 1981 to analyze U.S. tax and spending policy through the lens of low- and moderate-income families. He helped shape major policy advances — such as food assistance programs like SNAP, expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit, and health coverage — earning a reputation as “Washington’s de facto lobbyist for the poor.”
Larry Mantle has been the host of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on NPR-member station KPCC, 89.3 FM, since April 1st, 1985. AirTalk is the longest-running daily talk show in Southern California.
Washington Post
By Faiola, Schmidt, Natanson, Hudson, DeYoung & Belton
January 9, 2026
Inside the frantic global race to find an escape route for Maduro
A previously unreported Christmas Eve meeting in Vatican City was one of many failed attempts to find safe harbor for the Venezuelan leader before the U.S. raid.
VATICAN CITY — On Christmas Eve, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, second-in-command to the pope and a longtime diplomatic mediator, urgently summoned Brian Burch, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, to press for details on America’s plans in Venezuela, according to government documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Would the United States target only drug traffickers, he asked, or was the Trump administration really after regime change? Nicolás Maduro had to go, Parolin conceded, according to the documents, but he urged the U.S. to offer him a way out.
For days, the influential Italian cardinal had been seeking access to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the documents show, desperate to head off bloodshed and destabilization in Venezuela. In his conversation with Burch, a Trump ally, Parolin said Russia was ready to grant asylum to Maduro and pleaded with the Americans for patience in nudging the strongman toward that offer.
“What was proposed to [Maduro] was that he would go away and he would be able to enjoy his money,” said a person familiar with the Russian offer. “Part of that ask was that [President Vladimir] Putin would guarantee security.”
But it was not to be. A week later, Maduro and his wife would be seized by American Special Operations forces in a raid that killed about 75 people and be flown to New York to face drug trafficking charges.
The previously unreported meeting in Vatican City was one of many failed attempts — by the Americans and intermediaries, the Russians, Qataris, Turks, the Catholic Church and others — to head off a building diplomatic crisis and find safe harbor for Maduro before Saturday’s U.S. raid to capture him.
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On Wednesday, January14, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Abby Leibman and Bob Greenstein who will be in conversation with Larry Mantle (see bios below) on the topic: “THE POLITICS OF HUNGER: CONFRONTING POVERTY IN A TIME OF DIVISION AND CRISIS” (Register Here)
Abby J. Leibman has been the President & CEO of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger since 2011. Ms. Leibman has spent her career at the forefront of social justice advocacy, including co-founding and leading the California Women’s Law Center. She advises policymakers, nonprofit advocates and community leaders on the barriers and challenges that contribute to economic and food insecurity, including the persistent challenges of the feminization of poverty.
Bob Greenstein is the founder and President Emeritus of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), which he launched in 1981 to analyze U.S. tax and spending policy through the lens of low- and moderate-income families. He helped shape major policy advances — such as food assistance programs like SNAP, expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit, and health coverage — earning a reputation as “Washington’s de facto lobbyist for the poor.”
Larry Mantle has been the host of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on NPR-member station KPCC, 89.3 FM, since April 1st, 1985. AirTalk is the longest-running daily talk show in Southern California.
New York Times/Opinion
By Cong. Don Bacon (R-Nebraska 2nd district)
January 7, 2026
G.O.P. Congressman: Trump Needs to Change Course on Venezuela
Political pundits love black-and-white answers, but a realistic assessment of President Trump’s actions in Venezuela is a shade of gray. How dark or light that gray becomes will depend on Mr. Trump’s future actions. He had good reason to capture Nicolás Maduro over the weekend, and the operation could be a geopolitical as well as a military success — if the president changes course.
Capturing Mr. Maduro stands to help Venezuela and its region. Mr. Maduro was a terrible dictator. He and his predecessor destroyed Venezuela’s democracy and economy, taking the country from the wealthiest in South America to the poorest. Many people are starving in that resource-rich nation. Mr. Maduro’s removal weakens Cuba, which relied on his economic generosity, and will probably undermine Russia’s and China’s influence within Venezuela.
Mr. Maduro also was indicted on charges relating to facilitating cocaine trafficking to the United States. Opioids such as fentanyl rightly get the most attention for their deadly effects, but cocaine overdoses have been rising. I’ve lost three brothers to drugs and alcohol, and I’ve seen the pain in my dad’s eyes. My dad is not alone; each year, too many moms and dads feel his pain.
Bringing Mr. Maduro to justice will not be enough to call his removal a success. The Trump administration still needs to show that the United States is acting in the interests of regional stability and of Venezuelans themselves. That starts with installing the country’s rightfully elected leaders.
Instead, Mr. Trump appears to favor working with Mr. Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez. She is an illegitimate leader…
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Thomas L. Friedman
January 3, 2026
To Trump, on Venezuela: You Break It, You Own It
It is far too early to have clear answers as to what will happen next in Venezuela in the wake of the Trump administration’s removal of President Nicolás Maduro to stand trial in the United States. But I have a lot of questions based on such interventions by the United States in other regions.
On March 19, 2011, a NATO-led coalition launched a military intervention — exclusively using air power — into the Libyan civil war that eventually led to the toppling of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s government, followed in October of that year by his killing by opposition forces. On March 29, 2011, I wrote a column that concluded, “Dear Lord, please make President Obama lucky.” The theme of the essay was that Barack Obama had just facilitated the ouster of the leader of Libya, but we had no forces on the ground to shape events after that.
“I don’t know Libya,” I wrote at the time, “but my gut tells me that any kind of decent outcome there will require boots on the ground — either as military help for the rebels to oust Qaddafi as we want, or as post-Qaddafi peacekeepers and referees between tribes and factions to help with any transition to democracy. Those boots cannot be ours. We absolutely cannot afford it.”
So, who would referee the next phase?
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THIS Wednesday, January 7, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Leah Litman who will be in conversation with Madeleine Brand (see bios below) on the topic: “LAWLESS: HOW THE SUPREME COURT RUNS ON CONSERVATIVE GRIEVANCE, FRINGE THEORIES, AND BAD VIBES” (Register Here)
Leah Litman is a professor of law at the University of Michigan, co-host of Strict Scrutiny, and author of the recent NYT Best-Seller “Lawless: How the Supreme Court Rules on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes.” Her scholarship has been recognized with the American Law institute’s Early Career Scholars Medal & the American Constitution Society’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scholar Award.
Madeleine Brand is the host of the award-winning daily news and culture show, Press Play. On the show, she covers national, international and local stories through a Southern California lens. She i also the co-host of KCRW’s legal affairs podcast, The Legal Eagle Files.
From her clerkship with former Justice Anthony Kennedy to her current teaching on constitutional law, Litman is well positioned as an observer of the Supreme Court.
Her aim in writing the book, Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes was to inform readers who are not immersed in the law about the workings of the US SC.
New York Times/Opinion
Thomas L. Friedman
January 3, 2026
To Trump, on Venezuela: You Break It, You Own It
It is far too early to have clear answers as to what will happen next in Venezuela in the wake of the Trump administration’s removal of President Nicolás Maduro to stand trial in the United States. But I have a lot of questions based on such interventions by the United States in other regions.
On March 19, 2011, a NATO-led coalition launched a military intervention — exclusively using air power — into the Libyan civil war that eventually led to the toppling of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s government, followed in October of that year by his killing by opposition forces. On March 29, 2011, I wrote a column that concluded, “Dear Lord, please make President Obama lucky.” The theme of the essay was that Barack Obama had just facilitated the ouster of the leader of Libya, but we had no forces on the ground to shape events after that.
“I don’t know Libya,” I wrote at the time, “but my gut tells me that any kind of decent outcome there will require boots on the ground — either as military help for the rebels to oust Qaddafi as we want, or as post-Qaddafi peacekeepers and referees between tribes and factions to help with any transition to democracy. Those boots cannot be ours. We absolutely cannot afford it.”
So, who would referee the next phase?
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Washington Post/Opinion
Max Boot
January 3, 2025
Trump claims the U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela.
The raid to nab Maduro was brilliantly executed. The aftermath could get extremely messy.
In recent months, President Donald Trump has assembled the largest U.S. naval armada in the Caribbean since the invasion of Panama in 1989. There were far too many forces simply to blow up some suspected drug boats — but not enough to invade Venezuela, a nation of nearly 30 million people. Now we know what all that naval might was for. The U.S. force was the perfect size for a commando raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
That is exactly what the U.S. Army’s Delta Force pulled off under the cover of darkness early Saturday morning in a bold and brilliant operation that showed once again why the U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. intelligence community are the best in the world.
A U.S. Special Operations raid in a large foreign capital full of hostile fighters could easily go wrong, as did the 1993 “Black Hawk Down” fiasco in Somalia. That operation damaged President Bill Clinton politically and led to Defense Secretary Les Aspin’s downfall. It must have taken nerves of steel for Trump to give the go-ahead. Because the raid seemingly went like clockwork, Trump was able to take a victory lap at a typically rambling Saturday news conference at his Mar-a-Lago Club.
Maduro was no terrorist leader, and he was no direct threat to the United States, despite the administration’s attempts to label him as a “narco-terrorist.” But…
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