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Democracy’s Peril and Promise: Let the Ukraine Crisis Awaken Action

The attack on Ukraine focuses the mind on a most critical question for humanity: In our fast-changing world, what is democracy’s future?

Mar 7, 2022

Democracy’s Peril and Promise: Let the Ukraine Crisis Awaken Action

Mar 7, 2022

Free Market Mythology Is a Freedom-Killer

Beyond monopoly’s power to limit our freedom to choose and earn a fair wage, our freedom is also compromised by the dominance of corporate…

Feb 23, 2022

Free Market Mythology Is a Freedom-Killer

Feb 23, 2022

Breaking Free from Three Deadly Thought Traps

The assumption held by many Americans that our nation enjoys relatively equal opportunity in part reflects widespread lack of awareness of…

Feb 20, 2022

Breaking Free from Three Deadly Thought Traps

Feb 20, 2022

American ‘Exceptionalism?’ Yes, but Not in a Good Way

It can be painful to acknowledge the stone-cold truth that we are indeed exceptional, but by many measures, not in ways we can celebrate.

Feb 2, 2022

American ‘Exceptionalism?’ Yes, but Not in a Good Way

Feb 2, 2022

Is All This “Polarization” a Cause or a Symptom?

Mistrust of government and the tensions between segments of society have been intentionally constructed and aggravated. Once you recognize…

Jan 25, 2022

Is All This “Polarization” a Cause or a Symptom?

Jan 25, 2022

Now’s Our Chance — We Can Reverse Democracy’s Decline

Fed up, everyday citizens are stepping up to reverse a whole slew of assaults on our democracy — from voting rights to gerrymandering to…

Jan 13, 2022

Now’s Our Chance — We Can Reverse Democracy’s Decline

Jan 13, 2022

Did Horror of January 6 Crush Your Optimism? Try “Possibilism” Instead

That which is essential to address all our major challenges — democracy truly accountable to the people — is not an option. It is an…

Jan 6, 2022

Did Horror of January 6 Crush Your Optimism? Try “Possibilism” Instead

Jan 6, 2022

Hunger Is Over, If We Want It

Globally, in this now-or-never moment, we can remake governance to answer to all of us, to finally make policy with the understanding that…

Dec 8, 2021

Hunger Is Over, If We Want It

Dec 8, 2021

America’s Killer Diet

Our food is increasingly implicated in such major killers as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, stroke, and certain…

Nov 3, 2021

America’s Killer Diet

Nov 3, 2021

Democracy as Dignity

Dispersions of power, transparency, and mutual accountability.

Jan 21, 2021

Democracy as Dignity

Jan 21, 2021

Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé

The author of nineteen books, beginning with the acclaimed Diet for a Small Planet, and co-author of Daring Democracy.

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