What does it take to fulfill one's duty to participate in democratic elections?

The obligations of a democratic citizen extend beyond registering a presidential preference every four years.

US democracy has always been about striking the proper balance between individual freedoms and the popular will.

The opportunity to register one's political preferences (especially at the federal level) is small, and only getting smaller.

Given that the people's voice grants government legitimacy, the authority of American democracy is under threat.

Our conceptions of legal and moral responsibility encourage less-than-ideal results.

All study, in the end, requires us to engage with the difficult and subjective question of value. The sciences are no different.

The problems of design and bias within scientific studies are only amplified by the way news outlets choose to frame findings.

What is required in order for our government to represent the people's will?

Is faith underrepresented on the bench, and are critics of the president's nomination guilty of discrimination against the religious?

How could money possibly undermine citizens' basic political equality in a democracy?

How can the Court overturn precedent and go against stare decisis?

The Electoral College, partisan gerrymandering, and varying Congressional district sizes have all undermined the people's political voice.

Neither revenge nor negligence can justify hoping for the worse or expressing joy at other's misfortune.

No taxation without representation? Many still have no way of having their political voice recognized.

Can virtue ethics ever justify wishing harm to come to others?

What can Ezra Klein and David French tell us about making politics manageable despite hyperpartisanship?

Political principles or party affiliation? Our political discourse tends toward tribalism first, convictions second.

How can we explain the unique moral wrong committed when we trade on our principles?

How the show situates the viewer and the relation it takes to its subject exposes familiar workings of power while making us complicit.

Who is to say what constitutes high art or even what qualifies as art in the first place?

Our entertainments send political messages all the time, what changes is our receptivity to them.

Escape of the Deserter or Escape of the Prisoner? Not all kinds of escape are justified.

The sphere of the political is only ever expanding. In many cases this may be cause for celebration, but we must also recognize that soon there will be no space left.