Teri has written novels, short stories, nonfiction for both young readers and adults, and lots of legal briefs. She is currently working on a book on disinformation to be published by Macmillan Publishers. Her political commentary has appeared on the NBC Think Blog and CNN.com. Her articles and essays have appeared in publications as diverse as Education Week, Slate Magazine, and Scope Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in the American Literary View, The Iowa Review, and others. For twelve years she maintained a private appellate law practice limited to representing indigents on appeal from adverse rulings. She believes with the ACLU that when the rights of society's most vulnerable members are denied, everybody's rights are imperiled. She also believe with John Updike that the purpose of literature is to expand our sympathies. Teri lives with her family on the beautiful central coast in California.
A little bit of agitation is good. It motivates us to action. It stimulates voter turnout. Too much is paralyzing. And pointless.
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Here’s the part that is hard for people to grasp: The GOP doesn’t want a democracy. They want fascism. They’re trying to destroy truth. That, of course, explains Fox, Trump, and the GOP. They are actively trying to undermine factuality.
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Part 1 of 2 This post started as a YouTube video. You can see it here. Today I plan to talk about a question I often get: “Is it too late to
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This blog post started out as a 10-minute video. What follows is an edited transcript. You can see the video here. Before I talk about Susan B. Anthony, I want to talk
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Remember after Trump’s second impeachment trial, Sen. Mitch McConnell concluded that, “There’s no question — none — that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day.”
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Journalist Ben Kesling said this: I’ll add that Finland (which declared independence from Russia in 1917) knows a thing or two about fighting Russian disinformation campaigns and successfully resisting them. It’s not
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I’ll start with how and why right-wing extremists outrage their own people. Keeping their own people outraged is a fascist strategy. Yale professor Timothy Snyder calls it sadopopulism. The formula works like this:
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After this poll was released, this question came to me on Twitter: I see two possibilities ahead for the Republican Party. #1: The party hardens as a right-wing white nationalist party and
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Here we go. Over the Cliff Notes (name suggested last year by a clever follower on Twitter). The charge: Incitement of Insurrection. Spoiler: This is a slam dunk in the impeach-and-convict department
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Most questions I’ve received through my email have been about criminal consequences for Trump. Meanwhile, Articles of Impeachment are circulating.
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If you missed it, the news that rocked social media today: First, the GOP leaders lie and say there was election fraud. Then GOP senators argue that the fact that their supporters
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