trumpland
The United States has rarely been a more divided nation and bridging that gap is essential. The Democracy Center is writing for a national audience about the issues and the ideas of a fractured country, and some possibilities for moving forward together.
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a liberal in trumpland
By Jim Shultz for the New York Review of Books
What a small town in far western New York tells us about the communities that helped make Donald Trump the U.S. President, and will decide if he wins a second term.
Lockport, New York—Much has been written in the era of Trump about the dividing of America. Statistics tell us that we have retreated into enclaves of the like-minded, liberals with liberals, conservatives with conservatives, each side shielded from the experience of daily interaction with people who do not share our political views. I do not have that problem.
News and Opinion in the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Since 2017, the Democracy Center has been publishing a biweekly column in the two-century-old daily paper in Lockport, New York, a small conservative city in the heart of Trump country. From immigration, to guns, to spy surveillance cameras in the public schools, these articles are an experiment in bridging the gap of political polarization that stretches across the United States today.
The New York Times reports on our work to stop turning high-tech surveillance on students.
The Democracy Center’s op-ed in the New York Times that put the issue of facial recognition cameras in schools in the national spotlight.
As workers at GM plants across the U.S. go on strike, a look at the wider meaning, from a city where GM once meant everything.
A series of portraits and stories about being black in the heart of Trump’s America
A look at how communities all across the U.S. are surrounded by ‘socialism’.
How we became so separate, and how we might come back together, in the Lockport Union-Sun and Journal.