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21. Deauwand Myers

How democracy dies

Many Americans think democracy is durable; that the United States, bloody and genocidal in its past, has been expanding the franchise to women and people of color and sexual minorities throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

2021-06-07 17:22

Biden in the Asia Pacific

The terms of Korean presidents are an oddity in advanced democracies. To curb the faux-presidential dictatorships of past presidents - like Park Chung-hee - the Korean Constitution only allows for one five-year fixed term.

2021-05-10 17:38

Democrats deliver

“A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy,” is a prescient excerpt from the “New Nationalism Speech” by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States.

2021-04-12 17:15

Moon and his neighbors

Literally, for centuries, Korea has been geographically and geopolitically stuck between implacable nation-states: adversarial and powerful. Whether it be the Mongolians, the Chinese, the Japanese or more recently North Korea, Korean society has endured being rolled over by wars and the rumor of wars for most of its existence.

2021-03-15 16:52

Biden-Harris and race

On Jan. 6, the world witnessed a shocking scene unfold at America's Capitol. The building, which stood through the Civil War and two World Wars unscathed, was ransacked by a horde of white domestic terrorists, fueled by the big lie Donald Trump had loudly and consistently pushed in speeches and online for months prior to the presidential election: his electoral defeat was a fraud; he lost the election due to a vast conspiracy to change, add, or delete votes and steal his rightful victory.

2021-02-28 16:34

“I can taste the tin of the sky - the real tin thing. / Winter dawn is the color of metal, / The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves. / All night I have dreamed of destruction, annihilations - / An assembly-line of cut throats…” -from “Waking in Winter,” by Sylvia Plath

2020-12-02 16:40

Take COVID-19 seriously

COVID-19 is “…like the cat I have nine times to die / This is No. 3. / What a trash / To annihilate each decade… / Dying / Is an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well. / I do it so it feels like hell. / I do it so it feels real. / I guess you could say I've a call.” - From “Lady Lazarus,” by Sylvia Plath.

2020-10-14 17:03

Korean fragility

I have experienced more racism and anti-blackness in Asia than I ever have in America. Considering our current historical moment, that sounds counterintuitive, but it's very true.

2020-09-02 17:11

Past and patriarchy

Along history, forever / some woman dancing, / making shapes on the air; / forever a man / riding a good horse, /sitting the dark horse well / his penis erect with fantasy - Muriel Rukeyser

2020-08-04 17:07

I lived through the national travesty of the impeachment and imprisonment of ex-President Park Geun-hye. Massive marches throughout the capital, Seoul, and the nation's protests blotted out all other news.

2020-07-08 17:11

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