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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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August 3, 2026
This Wednesday, August 5, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Theo Baker who will be in conversation with Larry Mantle on the topic: “WHO GETS TO RULE THE FUTURE? POWER, PRIVILEGE & THE MAKING OF AMERICA” (Register Here).
Theo Baker graduated from Stanford University in June 2026. While a student at Stanford, he was a reporter and editor of the Stanford Daily. Theo’s reporting led to the resignation of the then-president of Stanford University and made Baker the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious George Polk Award. Baker is the author of “How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University,” an acclaimed examination of elite institutions, influence, and the making of tomorrow’s leaders. Theo is the son of Susan Glasser of The New Yorker and Peter Baker of the NY Times.
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.
From Theo Baker, winner of the George Polk Award for his investigation that brought down Stanford’s president, comes a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris.
Slush funds. Shell companies. Yacht parties. This is life for Silicon Valley’s favored teenagers.
Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder. It seemed like paradise. There were Rodin sculptures next to nuclear laboratories and inventors lounging with Olympians. But Baker soon discovered a culture that embraced corner-cutting, that vested infinite excess and access in the hands of kids with few safeguards to catch bad behavior.
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Foreign Affairs
Dana Stroul
June 16, 2026
How the Iran War Will Transform America’s Military Role
Throughout the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Washington has relished the display of its conventional military superiority. President Donald Trump’s administration has boasted of its quantitative achievements: before the April 8 cease-fire, the United States alone flew more than 10,000 air sorties, hit over 130,000 targets, and intercepted 1,700 Iranian missiles and drones. According to U.S. Central Command, the campaign demolished more than 85 percent of the facilities that Tehran used to produce missiles and drones, sank the majority of Iran’s naval vessels, and eliminated 70 percent of its missile launch infrastructure.
But degrading Iran’s military capabilities was not the broad strategic goal Trump laid out in the early days of Operation Epic Fury. He variously promised to achieve the complete surrender of the regime, to protect the Iranian people from their leaders’ brutality, to rid the region of Iran’s malign influence entirely, and to wrest a better nuclear deal from Tehran than the one U.S. President Barack Obama reached in 2015. All these aims remain elusive. The regime in Tehran survived. And it has cleverly adapted toward an attrition strategy that has badly strained the U.S. arsenal, threatened civilian infrastructure across the Middle East, and added a new dimension of power projection by effectively closing the Strait of Hormuz and pressuring the global economy.
Although the U.S. military’s approach to the region has delivered many operational successes, the Iran war has exposed its serious shortcomings and created new challenges. As it demonstrated an unmatched ability to rapidly deploy massive air and sea power, the Pentagon also deepened its relationships with Middle Eastern militaries, especially with the Israeli armed forces, with which it fought its first truly joint campaign since World War II. But Washington’s tactical successes could not make up for its strategic missteps. Its failure to build a fighting coalition beforehand—or even to make the case on the global stage that Iran had become an imminent threat—left it struggling to build international consensus to confront Iran’s asymmetric tactics and finalize a strong postwar deal. And the conflict dangerously ran down the U.S. arsenal. The United States simply cannot afford to fight another war like this one.
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Bloomberg Opinion
Noah Feldman
August 2, 2026
Populists Have Always Hated the Senate. How Does It Survive?
As the Democratic Socialists of America bash the Senate, calling for its abolition, many Republicans and conservatives are bashing the DSA, for daring to question James Madison’s constitutional design. Surprisingly, both are partly right.
Madison certainly planned for a Senate to be composed of the wisest and most nonpartisan men the United States could produce. But he expected the Senate to be apportioned based on the population of each state, the way the House of Representatives is. He viewed a Senate that gave the voters of tiny states wildly disproportionate power over voters from big states as a distortion of republicanism.
Madison’s constitutional plans for the Senate were foiled. Exactly how it happened is a timely reminder of how the unrepresentative nature of America’s constitutional system is a both a bug and a feature of our democracy.
The idea of a bicameral legislature was already old by the time it was incorporated into the Virginia plan that was introduced near the outset of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. In the mother country, the House of Commons was elected. The House of Lords was hereditary, although the Crown could always create new peers.
In a constitutional monarchy such as the United Kingdom’s of the late 18th century, the theory behind bicameralism was that the two houses represented different segments of the population: ordinary people and aristocrats. Madison was enough of a believer in the Jeffersonian ideal of citizens’ equality to reject the notion of separate houses to represent each class. But he still believed there was a benefit in having two legislative houses — not because they would represent different kinds of leaders, but because he expected their composition to be different.
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July 31, 2026
On Wednesday, August 5, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Theo Baker who will be in conversation with Larry Mantle on the topic: “WHO GETS TO RULE THE FUTURE? POWER, PRIVILEGE & THE MAKING OF AMERICA” (Register Here).
Theo Baker graduated from Stanford University in June 2026. While a student at Stanford, he was a reporter and editor of the Stanford Daily. Theo’s reporting led to the resignation of the then-president of Stanford University and made Baker the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious George Polk Award. Baker is the author of “How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University,” an acclaimed examination of elite institutions, influence, and the making of tomorrow’s leaders. Theo is the son of Susan Glasser of The New Yorker and Peter Baker of the NY Times.
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.
From Theo Baker, winner of the George Polk Award for his investigation that brought down Stanford’s president, comes a revelatory and gripping account of Silicon Valley hubris.
Slush funds. Shell companies. Yacht parties. This is life for Silicon Valley’s favored teenagers.
Seventeen-year-old Theo Baker showed up for freshman year at Stanford University as a tech-obsessed coder. It seemed like paradise. There were Rodin sculptures next to nuclear laboratories and inventors lounging with Olympians. But Baker soon discovered a culture that embraced corner-cutting, that vested infinite excess and access in the hands of kids with few safeguards to catch bad behavior.
To purchase book, click on THIS LINK
New York Times/Opinion
By Bret Stephens
July 28, 2026
Because Israel is routinely the victim of double standards — Will Zohran Mamdani ever make a personal cause of denouncing his native Uganda for criminalizing homosexuality? Or tell a human-rights malefactor like Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that he, too, isn’t welcome in New York? — it’s tempting for the Jewish state’s stalwart defenders, including me, to downplay its failings.
That goes especially when we see the country having to defend its legitimacy against scoundrels. Or when allegations made against it later prove sloppily reported or entirely unfounded. Or when the chorus of condemnation is loud enough already without lending our voices to it.
But anyone who cares about Israel’s well-being shouldn’t be silent about anti-Palestinian settler terrorism in the West Bank and the nothing-much-to-see-here policy of Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister. That’s not only because the terrorism is a menace to Palestinian lives and property, or an affront to Jewish ethics, or a stain on Israel’s reputation — though it’s all those things. It’s also a direct threat to Israel’s security and statehood, and thus to Zionism itself..
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Washington Post/Opinion
By Max Boot
July 27, 2026
Marco Rubio wants to defend America — from largely imaginary threats
The secretary of state picks enemies that, unlike Russia or Iran, probably won’t push back.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is either the luckiest or the shrewdest member of the Trump Cabinet — maybe both. His good fortune has been that President Donald Trump has handed the most intractable diplomatic problems — ending the U.S.-Iran and Russia-Ukraine wars — to someone else: special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and, in the case of Iran, Rubio’s presumed rival for the 2028 Republican nomination, Vice President JD Vance. Neither set of negotiations is showing much progress, but Rubio has escaped the fallout.
The secretary of state is smart enough to pick on enemies that, unlike Russia or Iran, are less likely to effectively push back. In the past few weeks, Rubio has targeted the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Communist regime in Cuba and left-wing extremists in ways that are sure to please a president who is campaigning against the “communist menace” without running the risk of any serious blowback. That’s because the threats that Rubio claims to be fighting are vastly, ludicrously overblown.
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New York Times
David E. Sanger
July 26, 2026
Trump Seems Trapped by Iran War, Even as He Wields the World’s Biggest Hammer
A president who thought there were no limits to his power has discovered several, leaving him more frustrated and erratic.
President Trump often celebrates his unpredictability, declaring that it keeps allies and adversaries alike off balance.
By his telling, his willingness to bomb Iranian nuclear sites 13 months ago, and send Delta Force commandos in to snatch President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela from his bed in early January, reflected his determination to execute military operations that would have made his predecessors blanch. He told The New York Times he was limited only by “my own morality,” as he wielded the world’s biggest hammer.
But in recent weeks, he has seemed trapped, his presidency gradually consumed by a war he cannot find his way out of.
He has discovered limits on his power that he could have scarcely imagined as he began full combat operations on Feb. 28, when he set out goals for a swift end to Iran’s nuclear program and the overthrow of the country’s government.
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July 28, 2026
Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Rick Hasen who will be in conversation with Patt Morrison on the topic: “VOTING RIGHTS, THE SUPREME COURT AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS (Register Here).
Rick Hasen is an American legal scholar and expert in legislation, election law and campaign finance. He is currently a professor at UCLA Law and the Director of UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project. Hasen was one of the founding co-editors of the quarterly Election Law Journal, a peer reviewed publication on election law. He also runs Election Law Blog, focusing on election law, campaign finance, voting rights, initiatives, redistricting, and other legal issues. He is the author of six critically acclaimed books including his latest, A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.
Patt Morrison, author, columnist, and broadcast journalist, 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.
New York Times
David E. Sanger
July 26, 2026
Trump Seems Trapped by Iran War, Even as He Wields the World’s Biggest Hammer
A president who thought there were no limits to his power has discovered several, leaving him more frustrated and erratic.
President Trump often celebrates his unpredictability, declaring that it keeps allies and adversaries alike off balance.
By his telling, his willingness to bomb Iranian nuclear sites 13 months ago, and send Delta Force commandos in to snatch President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela from his bed in early January, reflected his determination to execute military operations that would have made his predecessors blanch. He told The New York Times he was limited only by “my own morality,” as he wielded the world’s biggest hammer.
But in recent weeks, he has seemed trapped, his presidency gradually consumed by a war he cannot find his way out of.
He has discovered limits on his power that he could have scarcely imagined as he began full combat operations on Feb. 28, when he set out goals for a swift end to Iran’s nuclear program and the overthrow of the country’s government.
Five months later, those goals remain almost entirely unaccomplished. And Mr. Trump, once confident that overwhelming force would enable him to pursue in Iran what he proudly called the “Venezuela model” — a change of government to one amenable to U.S. control — is now hesitant to plunge back into major combat operations that his intelligence agencies assess are unlikely to work as well in Tehran.
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July 22, 2026
If you missed today’s program featuring Robert Shrum and Michael Murphy in conversation with Madeleine Brand, 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
On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Rick Hasen who will be in conversation with Patt Morrison on the topic: “DEMOCRACY ON THE BALLOT: VOTING RIGHTS, THE SUPREME COURT AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS (Register Here).
Rick Hasen is an American legal scholar and expert in legislation, election law and campaign finance. He is currently a professor at UCLA Law and the Director of UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project. Hasen was one of the founding co-editors of the quarterly Election Law Journal, a peer reviewed publication on election law. He also runs Election Law Blog, focusing on election law, campaign finance, voting rights, initiatives, redistricting, and other legal issues. He is the author of six critically acclaimed books including his latest, A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.
Patt Morrison, author, columnist, and broadcast journalist, 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.
New York Times/Opinion
By Bret Stephens
July 21, 2026
Somewhere around the two-hour mark in JD Vance’s nearly three-hour podcast interview last week with Joe Rogan, the pair got into a serious conversation about supernatural and extraterrestrial phenomena. By serious, I mean it in the sense that Rogan seemed to take the subject seriously while Vance cynically, or cretinously, or cravenly, or credulously or conspiratorially — or perhaps it’s all of the above — played along with him.
It contained the following insights from the vice president of the United States:
“If we’re talking about an extraterrestrial being that is humanlike, but not human, that contains effectively infinite powers and is torturing human beings, you can call it an alien if you want, but I think there’s a lot of historical precedent to call that a demon.”
And:
“If you’re looking for me to concede the point that there is something different or could be something different between an angel, a demon, a space alien, a supernatural but non-any-of-those-other-things beings, yes, I concede that.”
And:
“I got two-and-a-half more years as V.P., and I swear to you, if there are little green men, like body remains, I’m not going to text you. I’m going to try to smuggle a camera in and get a photo of these things.”
Call the veep, Agent Mulder!
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Wall Street Journal/Opinion
By The Editorial Board
July 21, 2026
Trump Takes Another Swing at Canada
Round three of the senseless tariff war between North American neighbors.
What do you know? President Trump is conceding that his blunderbuss border taxes are harming U.S. business as other countries retaliate. So now he’s whacking Canada harder for punching back. The trade brawl could leave both countries with more bruises than a hockey fight.
The White House on Monday exhumed Section 338 of the 1930 Tariff Act to impose 50% tariffs on hundreds of Canadian goods, including hockey sticks, honey, beer, down feathers, fishing rods and golf clubs. The tariffs are set to take effect in 30 days, which means he’s using tariffs as leverage to win concessions from Canada.
He may also enjoy showing off his new tariff bazooka. Section 338 lets the President impose tariffs up to 50% on countries that discriminate against “commerce of the United States, directly or indirectly” in relation to foreign countries. No previous President has used this power, which hails from the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Act.
The provision was intended to let the President retaliate against countries that impose tariffs on the U.S. Mr. Trump is using the law to punish Canada for retaliating against his tariffs. His tariff order cites Canada’s 25% tariffs on U.S. cars that exceed certain quotas, which were a response to Mr. Trump’s 25% duties on motor vehicles and parts. According to the order, U.S. motor vehicle exports to Canada subsequently fell 22%, while Canadian imports from other countries increased.
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July 20, 2026
This Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Robert Shrum (D) and Michael Murphy (R) who will be in conversation with Madeleine Brand on the topic: “THE 2026 MIDTERMS: BLUE WALLS, RED WAVES & OTHER POLITICAL MYTHS (Register Here).
Robert M. Shrum is the Director of the Center for the Political Future and the Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics at the University of Southern California,. He is a former political consultant, who has led numerous Democratic presidential campaigns, He has been described as “the most sought-after consultant in the Democratic Party.”
Michael Murphy is one of the Republican Party’s most successful political media consultants, having handled strategy and advertising for more than 26 successful gubernatorial and Senatorial campaigns. Murphy has been called a “media master” by Fortune magazine and the leader of a “new breed” of campaign consultants by Congressional Quarterly.
Madeleine Brand is an American broadcast journalist and radio host with more than three decades of experience in public media. She currently hosts Press Play, an award-winning daily news and culture program on NPR affiilate KCRW-FM in Los Angeles.
Washinton Post/Opinion
By David Ignatius
July 19, 2026
Thank you, Mr. President, for fact-checking yourself
Far from proving fraud, the declassified intelligence shows analysts doing their jobs carefully.
When President Donald Trump delivered his television tirade Thursday night about “shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure” and a “cover-up” of Chinese election interference, he directed viewers to examine declassified intelligence the White House had just posted on its website.
To which we can only respond, “Thank you, Mr. President.”
Rather than supporting Trump’s inflammatory claims about Chinese election meddling and other threats, the documents undermine many of his arguments. And contrary to his portrait of a diabolical “deep state,” they show an intelligence community that’s almost comically cautious and bureaucratic in reaching its conclusions.
What’s frightening about Trump’s wild accusations of fraud is that they could “undermine confidence in US democratic processes,” which the National Intelligence Council warned in a January 2020 memorandum was a basic goal of foreign meddlers. “Adversaries could make wholly fabricated claims, such as announcing that they have compromised all US voting machines, a claim that would be difficult … for the US Government to disprove,” the memo explained.
Trump tried to sow precisely these doubts in his speech, with claims that hacked voting machines, fake ballots and illegal voters have sabotaged the integrity of our elections. Though he claimed otherwise, his speech seemed a deliberate attempt to undermine public confidence. Intentionally or not, he was doing our adversaries’ work for them.
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The Washington Institute for Near East Policy/Political Analyst
By Dennis Ross
July 17, 2026
To reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the latest dip in the Iran roller coaster, the Trump administration will need to marry renewed blockade efforts with a more collective-minded diplomatic approach.
U.S. President Donald Trump is never at a loss for words when it comes to the war with Iran. He is having a harder time conveying clear objectives in his war of choice. As U.S. officials weigh their unappealing options for getting to an acceptable endgame, the Trump administration’s war aims remain as confused today as they were when the U.S.-Israeli military campaign began on Feb. 28.
In February, the Trump administration could not decide if its aim was toppling the regime or degrading Iran’s military means to threaten its neighbors. The irony is that if Trump had only attacked Tehran’s military might and not its leadership, the Iranians would almost certainly not have shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the late Iranian supreme leader, had avoided doing so since 1988, believing that closing the strait would provoke a war with the United States that could threaten the survival of the Islamic Republic. But once Trump and the Israelis sought to decapitate the regime by killing Khamenei, Iran’s leaders concluded that they had nothing to lose. Now, however much the Trump administration may talk about ensuring that Iran never acquires nuclear weapons, the U.S. preoccupation is getting the Strait of Hormuz reopened and operating as it was prior to the war.
The problem is that the Iranians seem determined to remain in control of the strait. They see it as a “trump card,” giving them leverage over the global economy, inflicting domestic political pain on the hated Trump, and forcing their Gulf neighbors and others to pay them off both economically and politically. Mohsen Rezaei, a member of the old guard of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and an advisor to the new supreme leader, declared recently that the strait is “more important than dozens of atomic bombs.”
As a result, Trump is left with three basic options to end the war. First, he can stay on his present course, using military strikes to weaken the Iranians. Having renewed the U.S. blockade on Iran, Trump will be raising the costs to the Iranians at a time when their economy is in desperate shape. The president’s claims to have reopened the strait are hollow, and the Iranians will have a strong incentive to prevent others from transiting if they can’t.
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July 15, 2026
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On Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Robert Shrum (D) and Michael Murphy (R) who will be in conversation with Madeleine Brand on the topic: “THE 2026 MIDTERMS: BLUE WALLS, RED WAVES & OTHER POLITICAL MYTHS (Register Here).
Robert M. Shrum is the Director of the Center for the Political Future and the Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics at the University of Southern California,. He is a former political consultant, who has led numerous Democratic presidential campaigns, He has been described as “the most sought-after consultant in the Democratic Party.”
Michael Murphy is one of the Republican Party’s most successful political media consultants, having handled strategy and advertising for more than 26 successful gubernatorial and Senatorial campaigns. Murphy has been called a “media master” by Fortune magazine and the leader of a “new breed” of campaign consultants by Congressional Quarterly.
Madeleine Brand is an American broadcast journalist and radio host with more than three decades of experience in public media. She currently hosts Press Play, an award-winning daily news and culture program on NPR affiilate KCRW-FM in Los Angeles.
Washington Post/Opinion
By David Ignatius
July 14, 2026
Three words of advice for President Donald Trump as he tries to extricate himself from the mess of the Iran war: Just stop talking. Let America’s overwhelming military and economic power do the work.
Trump’s daily barrage of bluster and braggadocio amounts to negotiating with himself. He declares victory one day, resumes war the next. He praises Iran’s leaders, then calls them “scum.” He foolishly announces a 20 percent fee for protecting the Strait of Hormuz and then rescinds the rash proposal the next day. Trump must imagine this nonstop trash talk gives him leverage. He’s wrong. It makes him look weak in the eyes of Iran and the world.
Zoom out and you can see the chaotic situation more clearly: Iran’s economy is severely weakened; its nuclear facilities are buried under rubble and its top nuclear scientists are dead; its leadership appears divided over whether to do a deal with the United States. Hard-liners exult that they have survived an onslaught from America and Israel, but they don’t seem to have a strategy for what’s next.
Now zoom out on America: Trump is fighting an unpopular war with significant economic costs. He went to war with a poorly defined strategy and no good exit ramp; his negotiators floated an ambitious proposal for modernization of postwar Iran, but Iran’s leadership, while privately curious, has publicly spurned it. The memorandum of understanding that was supposed to open the Strait of Hormuz is a dead letter.
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Washington Post/Opinion
By Max Boot
July 13, 2026
How to interpret Trump’s head-spinning pivots on Iran and Russia
Trump’s rhetorical reversals are welcome, but it’s hard to know what to make of them.
President Donald Trump is not exactly known as a model of consistency, but, even by his standards, he executed two head-spinning U-turns at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, last week — one on Iran, the other on Ukraine.
Last month, just before signing a memorandum of understanding that offered Iran billions of dollars in economic benefits in return for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, Trump lavished praise on Iran’s leaders. “They were nice to deal with,” he said, adding that they were “strong” and “smart people” who are “not radicalized” and are “looking to help their country.”
Last week, following Iranian attacks on ships in the strait, Trump described Iran’s leaders as “scum,” “sick people,” “liars,” and “vicious, violent people,” and said the ceasefire was “over.” He ordered retaliatory military strikes and revoked the sanctions waiver the Treasury Department had provided for Iran to sell its oil.
On Ukraine, his transformation ran in the other direction: from hostility to sympathy. More than a year ago, Trump and Vice President JD Vance had a famously contentious Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that led to a temporary suspension of U.S. military aid.
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July 13, 2026
THIS Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Susan Glasser and Peter Baker who will be in conversation with Larry Mantle on the topic: “AMERICA’S MIDTERM ELECTIONS: WILL 2026 BE A POLIICAL RECKONING?” (Register Here).
Susan B. Glasser is an American journalist and news editor. She writes the on-line column “Letter from Trump’s Washington” in The New Yorker, where she is a staff writer. She has served as editor of Politico during the 2016 election cycle, founding editor of Politico Magazine, and editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, which won three National Magazine Awards during her tenure.
Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MS NOW. He was a reporter for The Washington Post for 20 years. He has covered six presidencies, from Bill Clinton through Donald Trump.
Larry Mantle has been the host of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on NPR-member station LAist (formerly KPCC} since April 1985. AirTalk is the longest-running daily talk show in Southern California.
New York Times/Opinion
By Jon Finer
July 12, 2026
The World Is Cutting Ties With America. It’s Already Costing Us.
In March 2023, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, laid out a strategy for managing the coercive policies of China. Europe, she argued, should “de-risk” from its dependence on the economic juggernaut by joining forces and building homegrown alternatives.
Three years later, de-risking from predatory superpowers remains the fundamental challenge facing European leaders, but China is no longer the main country of concern: The United States is. As they publicly seek to mollify a vindictive American president, policymakers across Europe are quietly working to reduce their decades-long dependence on the United States by increasing their own defense, energy and technology industries and diversifying their relationships with other nations. That dynamic was on display last week at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, where President Trump renewed his threats against the U.S. allies Denmark and Spain.
It’s not just Europe backing away from the United States. Leaders of America’s partners in Asia and the Middle East are quietly doing the same. The second Trump administration’s ostentatious corruption, trade conflicts, military adventurism and mercurial artificial intelligence regulation have produced a new moment in international affairs: a nearly global grand strategy of countries distancing themselves from the world’s most powerful nation.
For the United States, which has called itself the “indispensable nation” for decades, this represents a sea change. Countries have long sought the protection of America’s mighty military and access to its markets and technology. That in turn has benefited our economy and national security.
Now, amid intense competition from China, the erosion of key partnerships is undermining our military edge and world-leading technologies and limiting our ability to respond to China’s industrial advantages.
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New York Times/Opinion
By David French
July 12, 2026
Our Never-Ending Race to the Bottom
When I was a much younger man and had figured out far more about the world than I know now, there was an old Republican saying that appealed to me: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Some of you may remember the source. It’s a condensed version of a very similar line from Barry Goldwater’s 1964 convention speech in Daly City, Calif., a moment when an ideological revolution captured the Republican Party.
I grew up a Reagan Republican, and many of us traced our movement’s origin to Goldwater’s nomination. Yes, he got trounced by Lyndon Johnson. Yes, he was harsher than Reagan. His libertarianism was just too hard-edged. But something about the zeal in those words spoke to me.
After all, when you’re absolutely certain that you’re right — that the policies you advance will defend liberty and defend justice, then isn’t zealotry called for? Wouldn’t it be a horrifying shame if, for example, injustice metastasized across the United States because we lacked conviction?
Astute readers have already identified a number of problems. Why are you so certain that your policies will advance liberty and justice? The world is complex. What makes you think you’ve figured it out? And if you’re wrong, isn’t your zealotry actually destructive?
Worst of all, when you’re convinced that you’re righteous — and you are surrounded by fellow zealots — it is easy to see yourself and your allies as inherently virtuous and your opponents (no matter how much they may profess good intentions) as fundamentally corrupt, perhaps even evil.
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July 8, 2026
Tel Aviv University
Rahm Emanuel Speaks on US-Israel Relationship
Rahm Emanuel, former U.S. ambassador to Japan and widely seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2028, spoke at Tel Aviv University about U.S.-Israel relations. During his remarks, Emanuel said the alliance between the two nations was at a “crossroads” and laid out what he called a “23 state solution” for overarching peace in the Middle East, including Palestinian sovereignty.
Here is a LINK to the speech given by
former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
July 13, 2026
THIS Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Susan Glasser and Peter Baker who will be in conversation with Larry Mantle on the topic: “AMERICA’S MIDTERM ELECTIONS: WILL 2026 BE A POLIICAL RECKONING?” (Register Here).
Susan B. Glasser is an American journalist and news editor. She writes the on-line column “Letter from Trump’s Washington” in The New Yorker, where she is a staff writer. She has served as editor of Politico during the 2016 election cycle, founding editor of Politico Magazine, and editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, which won three National Magazine Awards during her tenure.
Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MS NOW. He was a reporter for The Washington Post for 20 years. He has covered six presidencies, from Bill Clinton through Donald Trump.
Larry Mantle has been the host of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on NPR-member station LAist (formerly KPCC} since April 1985. AirTalk is the longest-running daily talk show in Southern California.
New York Times/Opinion
By Jon Finer
July 12, 2026
The World Is Cutting Ties With America. It’s Already Costing Us.
In March 2023, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, laid out a strategy for managing the coercive policies of China. Europe, she argued, should “de-risk” from its dependence on the economic juggernaut by joining forces and building homegrown alternatives.
Three years later, de-risking from predatory superpowers remains the fundamental challenge facing European leaders, but China is no longer the main country of concern: The United States is. As they publicly seek to mollify a vindictive American president, policymakers across Europe are quietly working to reduce their decades-long dependence on the United States by increasing their own defense, energy and technology industries and diversifying their relationships with other nations. That dynamic was on display last week at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, where President Trump renewed his threats against the U.S. allies Denmark and Spain.
It’s not just Europe backing away from the United States. Leaders of America’s partners in Asia and the Middle East are quietly doing the same. The second Trump administration’s ostentatious corruption, trade conflicts, military adventurism and mercurial artificial intelligence regulation have produced a new moment in international affairs: a nearly global grand strategy of countries distancing themselves from the world’s most powerful nation.
For the United States, which has called itself the “indispensable nation” for decades, this represents a sea change. Countries have long sought the protection of America’s mighty military and access to its markets and technology. That in turn has benefited our economy and national security.
Now, amid intense competition from China, the erosion of key partnerships is undermining our military edge and world-leading technologies and limiting our ability to respond to China’s industrial advantages.
(To continue reading click here)
New York Times/Opinion
By David French
July 12, 2026
Our Never-Ending Race to the Bottom
When I was a much younger man and had figured out far more about the world than I know now, there was an old Republican saying that appealed to me: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Some of you may remember the source. It’s a condensed version of a very similar line from Barry Goldwater’s 1964 convention speech in Daly City, Calif., a moment when an ideological revolution captured the Republican Party.
I grew up a Reagan Republican, and many of us traced our movement’s origin to Goldwater’s nomination. Yes, he got trounced by Lyndon Johnson. Yes, he was harsher than Reagan. His libertarianism was just too hard-edged. But something about the zeal in those words spoke to me.
After all, when you’re absolutely certain that you’re right — that the policies you advance will defend liberty and defend justice, then isn’t zealotry called for? Wouldn’t it be a horrifying shame if, for example, injustice metastasized across the United States because we lacked conviction?
Astute readers have already identified a number of problems. Why are you so certain that your policies will advance liberty and justice? The world is complex. What makes you think you’ve figured it out? And if you’re wrong, isn’t your zealotry actually destructive?
Worst of all, when you’re convinced that you’re righteous — and you are surrounded by fellow zealots — it is easy to see yourself and your allies as inherently virtuous and your opponents (no matter how much they may profess good intentions) as fundamentally corrupt, perhaps even evil.
(To continue reading click here)
July 8, 2026
Tel Aviv University
Rahm Emanuel Speaks on US-Israel Relationship
Rahm Emanuel, former U.S. ambassador to Japan and widely seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2028, spoke at Tel Aviv University about U.S.-Israel relations. During his remarks, Emanuel said the alliance between the two nations was at a “crossroads” and laid out what he called a “23 state solution” for overarching peace in the Middle East, including Palestinian sovereignty.
Here is a LINK to the speech given by
former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
July 8, 2026
If you missed today’s program featuring AMB Dennis Ross in conversation with Larry Mantle, 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
On Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific, we welcome Susan Glasser and Peter Baker who will be in conversation with Larry Mantle on the topic: “AMERICA’S MIDTERM ELECTIONS: WILL 2026 BE A POLIICAL RECKONING?” (Register Here).
Susan B. Glasser is an American journalist and news editor. She writes the on-line column “Letter from Trump’s Washington” in The New Yorker, where she is a staff writer. She has served as editor of Politico during the 2016 election cycle, founding editor of Politico Magazine, and editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, which won three National Magazine Awards during her tenure.
Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MS NOW. He was a reporter for The Washington Post for 20 years. He has covered six presidencies, from Bill Clinton through Donald Trump.
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.
July 8, 2026
Tel Aviv University
Rahm Emanuel Speaks on US-Israel Relationship
Rahm Emanuel, former U.S. ambassador to Japan and widely seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2028, spoke at Tel Aviv University about U.S.-Israel relations. During his remarks, Emanuel said the alliance between the two nations was at a “crossroads” and laid out what he called a “23 state solution” for overarching peace in the Middle East, including Palestinian sovereignty.
Here is a LINK to the speech given by former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Bloomberg/Opinion
By Marc Champion
July 8, 2026
Trump’s Iran Ceasefire Was Built to Fail
Donald Trump says Iran’s leaders are “vicious,” “evil,” lying “scum.” Perhaps they are, but that is not the root cause of his predicament in the Strait of Hormuz, where the US president now says the ceasefire is over and further diplomacy would be a waste of time. His troubles — and therefore those of America’s Gulf allies and the global economy writ large — stem from his own falsehoods.
The war Trump launched against Iran on Feb. 28 didn’t end in the victory he has claimed. Nor did the ceasefire terms he agreed in an attempt to end it — set out in a so-called Memorandum of Understanding — represent Iran’s “unconditional surrender.” They were anything but. The document’s language is so ambiguous it has allowed both sides to continue pursuing their war aims by other means.
This was an improvement over the devastation of war and the risk, cited by Trump himself, of tipping the world into recession. Nonetheless, it created an inherently unstable situation, because it was only a question of time before that ambiguity meant the two sides would start accusing each other of breaking the ceasefire terms. Those perceived breaches began within days and produced periodic exchanges of fire. But until Wednesday, neither side had wanted to declare the truce and negotiations over, because the alternative was so unappealing.
This being Trump, it isn’t clear even now whether that moment has been reached. He left the door open for negotiations to continue, which would require the ceasefire to go on in some form, too. If that happens it’s because none of the circumstances that produced that MOU’s vague language have changed. Those include the failure of a months-long, US-Israeli air campaign to achieve either its original goals or the new one it created: restoring the Strait of Hormuz to its free, pre-war status.
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