Who Has the Power?
Democracy rarely dies with tanks in the streets. It changes quietly — through small, procedural shifts that feel ordinary. Authority inches away from the public. Oversight softens. Decisions once rooted in consent are reframed as efficiency or necessity. Nothing sounds alarming. Yet the balance of power slowly tilts.
Across the United States, the question is no longer academic. Who controls elections? Who defines the limits of protest? Who decides which institutions deserve trust? These are structural questions about where...
Crisis, Fear & Executive Power
A president stood before Congress ready to draft American workers into the U.S. military. Not enemy soldiers, not foreign threats — railroad engineers.
In May 1946, with World War II barely behind the country, Harry S. Truman asked lawmakers for emergency authority that could have forced striking railroad workers into Army uniforms and ordered them back to their jobs under threat of court-martial.
The nation was already strained. Wartime price controls had been lifted and inflation surged ...