Democracy Wire

Welcome to Karen's View, an occasional look at the nationwide work of Common Cause from the desk of President Karen Hobert Flynn. What you will read below are highlights representing the work accomplished in August and the first week of September 2018.

Martin G. Evans is a long-time advocate and volunteer at Common Cause Massachusetts and is professor emeritus of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. This essay was originally published by the Boston Business Journal.

Robert Reich offers advice on engaging political conversations with people we disagree with because democracy depends on it.

Hedrick Smith is an award-winning journalist whose documentary, The People vs. The Politicians, will air on MSNBC this fall helping to tell the good news of the growing people's movement to preserve our voices and votes in our democracy.