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		<title>Project 1971</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1971, Lewis Powell, soon to be Supreme Court Judge, wrote a memo with the subject Attack on American Free Enterprise System to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce laying out a strategy for American businesses to counter the growing criticism of capitalism and corporate influence.  This became known, in limit circles, as the Powell Memorandum or &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2025/project-1971/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Project 1971"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kleptocracy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kleptocracy is a term used to describe a system of government or state in which leaders or officials exploit their power to steal resources from the country they govern, often for personal gain. The word comes from the Greek words klepto (meaning theft) and kratos (meaning power or rule). Some characteristic of kleptocracies: Corruption The &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2025/kleptocracy/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Kleptocracy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Protecting Democracy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Experts predict a 19.2% four-year likelihood of democratic breakdown in the United States as of 2022.1 When democracy breaks down, it typically takes many years, often decades, to reverse the downward spiral. In the process, violence and corruption typically flourish, and talent and wealth flee to more stable countries, undermining national prosperity. It is not &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2024/protecting-democracy/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Protecting Democracy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurrection Defined</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Watching the violence of January 6, 2021, I could not believe what I was witnessing in the United States of America.  As I watched and followed the news of this incident, some people called the act an insurrection and some people called it a peaceful protest with people taking a tour of the Capital building! &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2024/insurrection-defined/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Insurrection Defined"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Can We Keep Our Republic?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Benjamin Franklin left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberations at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, he was asked  &#8220;Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?&#8221; to which he responded &#8220;A Republic, if you can keep it.&#8221; These days it sometimes feels like we are in danger &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2023/can-we-keep-our-republic/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Can We Keep Our Republic?"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Artificial Intelligence Regulation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence Regulation Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere these days.  AI is used in applications such as self-driving cars (e.g., Waymo, Nuro, and Zoox), some web search engines (e.g., Google Search and Bing), recommendation systems (used by YouTube, Amazon, and Netflix), understanding human speech (such as Siri and Alexa), generative or creative tools (ChatGPT,  Midjourney, &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2023/artificial-intelligence-regulation/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Artificial Intelligence Regulation"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Is It That We Want?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dirk Huizenga]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What Is It That We Want? By Michael Copps, originally posted July 10,2023 on Benton Institute blog Congress is dysfunctional. The courts are a bad and dangerous joke. Independent government agencies are on the cusp of being dismantled. The Administration’s agenda is largely blocked. Companies large and small have pillaged the economy and jacked up &#8230; <a href="https://www.dcdemocracy.org/2023/what-is-it-that-we-want/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "What Is It That We Want?"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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