It will require many such steps to take us back from the brink, but it’s worth starting today. The future we save may be our own. August 18, 2024 • Commentary This article appeared in Baltimore Sun on August 18, 2024. We’re living through an age in which American democracy and the rule of law face deep challenges. Mob violence, vicious rhetoric and even attempted assassinations have raised fears that we as a nation can no longer work out our differences peacefully at the ballot box.
