Patrick Gaspard

Dec 10, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Patrick Gaspard |Heather McGhee |Fernand R. Amandi |Ilyse Hogue

By The Editors  from Winter 2025, No. 75 – 1 MIN READ Donald Trump won. What now? Here at Democracy, that’s the question that hasn’t left our minds since November 6. So we asked some of the smartest thinkers and political analysts we know to examine the different facets of our new reality: Why did our warnings about democracy fall short? Why didn’t abortion rights prove decisive?

Nov 21, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Patrick Gaspard

No one believed us. Or at least no one we needed to persuade. We told them Donald Trump represented an existential threat. We told them the Supreme Court had removed guardrails that existed in his first term. We told them even more women would lose their ability to make decisions about their bodies. We told them that giving Trump control of Congress would enable him to strip away health care.

May 15, 2024 | americanprogress.org | Patrick Gaspard |Allison McManus

It is against this backdrop that Hamas carried out the most horrific atrocities against Israelis in history. Hamas massacred some 1,200 people on October 7—including women, children, and the elderly—and captured 260 hostages, many of whom have perished in custody. Since then, Israel has carried out one of the most brutal military offensives in the last century, killing over 34,000 Palestinians, more than two-thirds of whom are women and children.

May 1, 2024 | americanprogress.org | Patrick Gaspard

The student protests against the war in Gaza are growing rapidly; increasing in intensity; and taking place against the background of extraordinary external pressures exerted on university administrators. Congressional hearings and threats from donors have placed the harsh glare of the spotlight on campus leaders while concentrating enormous power against student activists. This is an environment rife for the disregard of cherished rights and well-established traditions of dissent.

Feb 11, 2024 | eu.detroitnews.com | Patrick Gaspard |Stephen D Silberstein

Patrick Gaspard and Stephen Silberstein |  The Detroit NewsThree years after the violent Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, we stand at the precipice of our nation’s next presidential election — an election that will inexorably shape our nation’s future and impact each one of us. Yet, the president will be chosen not by the American people, but by an archaic election system cobbled together in the 18th century that is both undemocratic and deeply vulnerable to corruption.