A people’s tool for democratic reform
Californians’ efforts to right our listing ship of state have produced a flurry of reform efforts and attracted a bevy of reformers. Jim Fishkin, a Stanford communications professor and democracy...
View ArticleWill California end its death penalty?
More than 100 nations and, as of Wednesday, 17 states have abandoned the death penalty as unworkable. On Monday, the California Secretary of State declared that an initiative that would replace...
View ArticleThere could be an initiative to kill gay people and California can’t stop it
Californians love their initiative process, even when the results should force them to ask some questions about it. Now we have yet another example of where popular democracy can go wrong: the...
View ArticleKilling the “Shoot the Gays” Initiative
So the lawyer behind the pathetic and disgusting “Shoot the Gays” initiative says he won’t challenge Attorney General Kamala Harris’ lawsuit to keep it from circulating. He just wants it on the ballot...
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