Dick Gephardt

Sep 25, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Nick Penniman |Dick Gephardt |Zach Wamp |Elizabeth Pancotti

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Sep 17, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Nick Penniman |Barbara Comstock |Tim Roemer |Dick Gephardt

By The Editors  from Fall 2024, No. 74 – 1 MIN READ Too often, when progressives talk about ways to save and strengthen democracy, they’re talking only to themselves, with grand plans to transform the system dramatically. Ideas that will win only liberal support may be laudable, but let’s face it—in today’s Washington, they’re probably going nowhere.

Sep 17, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Dick Gephardt |Zach Wamp

Law professor Jeff Kosseff calls it “the 26 words that created the internet.” Senator Ron Wyden, one of its co-authors, calls it “a sword and a shield” for online platforms. But we call it Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, one of our most regrettable votes during our careers in Congress. We didn’t know it then. In the 1990s, long before Snapchat, Siri, and some app our grandkids use called “Yik Yak,” the internet seemed young and promising, but simple.

Jun 11, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Nick Penniman |Barbara Comstock |Tim Roemer |Dick Gephardt

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