Opinion | The Divide We Face: Democracy in Decay

by Mike Avey | COMMUNITY, JUSTICE, OPINION, POLITICS

It is not our failures that make us human, but rather our convictions to yet succeed. The accelerating collapse of corporate and governmental accountability has led to widespread civic abandonment. Mass layoffs at social safety net agencies, executive rollbacks on...

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