Hours after Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their home in what is shaping up to be a heartbreaking family tragedy, our president blamed…
Read more Commentary: Trump’s callous political attack on Rob Reiner shows a shameful moral failureIs President Trump going to restart nuclear weapons testing? When will this federal shutdown end? Will Californians pass Proposition 50, scramble the state’s congressional maps and shake up…
Read more News Analysis: Prop. 50 is just one part of a historically uncertain moment for American democracyGov. Gavin Newsom made a ballsy threat this week to Texas legislators who are trying to gerrymander voting maps in favor of Republicans. “Whatever they are doing will…
Read more Commentary: Newsom vows Texas will be ‘neutered’ by California. Will voters let him do it?The American experiment with constitutional democracy is in grave peril. If Donald Trump becomes president again, fighting to preserve U.S. constitutional democracy through his second term will require…
Read more Amending the Constitution Is Impossible Until Suddenly It’s NotNew civics resources fill the civics knowledge gap for countless American adults who never had civics in school PHOENIX, January 10, 2024 (Newswire.com) – The Sandra Day O’Connor…
Read more Sandra Day O’Connor Institute Releases ‘Citizens Guide to Presidential Primaries’ and More Free, Online Civics Micro-Lessons for AdultsIn late 2020, even as the instigators of insurrection were marshaling their followers to travel to Washington, D.C., another kind of coup—a quieter one—was in the works. On…
Read more Civil Rights UndoneFor all its marvelous creativity, the human imagination often fails when turned to the future. It is blunted, perhaps, by a craving for the familiar. We all appreciate…
Read more The Danger AheadPHOENIX, December 1, 2023 (Newswire.com) – The namesake organization founded by the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court is mourning the loss of Justice Sandra…
Read more Sandra Day O’Connor Institute Mourns Passing of FounderCivics 101 fills the civics knowledge gap for countless American adults who never had civics in school PHOENIX, November 9, 2023 (Newswire.com) – The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute…
Read more Sandra Day O’Connor Institute Announces Free, Online Civics Courses for AdultsPremier Study Finds New Evidence of Both Mother-to-Child (Trickle-Down) and Child-to-Mother (Trickle-Up) Relationships in Civic Education and Engagement PHOENIX, September 12, 2023 (Newswire.com) – The Sandra Day O’Connor…
Read more Sandra Day O’Connor Institute Announces Initiative to Produce New Research on CivicsThe commercial success of the country star Jason Aldean’s ode to small-town vigilantism helps explain the persistence of Donald Trump’s grip on red America. Aldean’s combative new song,…
Read more How Jason Aldean Explains Donald Trump (And Vice Versa)For most Americans, voting for a member of Congress is one of their simplest civic duties. Every two years, they pick the candidate they like best—usually the same…
Read more A Radical Idea for Fixing CongressA decade’s worth of disappointment has conditioned Black Americans and Democrats to fear voting-rights rulings from the Supreme Court. In 2013, a 5–4 majority invalidated a core tenet…
Read more A Supreme Court Ruling That Could Tip the HouseDepending on whom you ask in politics, the sudden advances in artificial intelligence will either transform American democracy for the better or bring about its ruin. At the…
Read more Political Campaigns May Never Be the SameIt was a raucous, interactive, and argumentative State of the Union like no other. And when it was over, President Joe Biden had provided a clear signal of…
Read more Feisty Joe Biden Is BackAs millions of Americans returned to their jobs this week after the Thanksgiving holiday, several of the elected leaders of Cochise County, Arizona, opted not to do theirs.…
Read more Cochise County’s Bottom-Up Guide to Election DenialThe Supreme Court delivered appalling decisions in June—on abortion, guns, and environmental regulation—but the conservative supermajority is poised to strike an even greater blow against American democracy. The…
Read more John Roberts’s Long GameThe defiant speech from Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming after her defeat in yesterday’s Republican primary could be reduced to a single message: This is round one. Cheney…
Read more Liz Cheney Already Has a 2024 StrategyPress Release – Mar 10, 2022 PHOENIX, March 10, 2022 (Newswire.com) – The O’Connor Civics Challenge, an online civics competition for 6th to 8th grade, is accepting submissions…
Read more Celebrate Women’s History Month With Sandra Day O’Connor Institute Civics Challenge for Middle SchoolersPHOENIX, December 9, 2021 (Newswire.com) – The third annual O’Connor Civics Challenge, an online civics competition for middle school students, is expanding its program in 2022. Open to…
Read more Sandra Day O’Connor Institute For American Democracy Announces National Civics Challenge for Middle Schoolers
