DAME Magazine

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

24/25 We're deeply grateful to the writers and reporters who brought their expertise, rigor, and imagination to this series. Their work reminds us that America's problems aren't inevitable. While there might not be a single fix, there are so many solutions. Read the full series:

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

22/25 Having health insurance should mean you can get health care. Except it often doesn't. @newyorkwriter.bsky.social exposes the ghost networks, denied claims, and provider shortages keeping Americans from mental-health treatment.

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

20/25 The Supreme Court isn't beyond reform. And Congress isn't powerless. @snipy.bsky.social details the constitutional tools lawmakers already possess to reshape the federal judiciary and restore checks on judicial power.

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

18/25 We keep debating student-loan repayment plans. But what about the cost of college itself? But there are ways to address the underlying problem, from stronger grants to tuition-free college and debt cancellation.

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

16/25 America's public health system was disturbingly easy to undermine. How do we keep it from happening again? @kavinsenapathy.bsky.social makes the case for scientific independence and safeguards that can withstand political interference.

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

14/25 What if the biggest problem with America's immigration system isn't the border, but the laws themselves? The rules governing who can come, stay, and become American are long overdue for a fundamental overhaul.

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

12/25 What if American power itself is part of the problem? @vanjackson.bsky.social challenges the assumption that U.S. security depends on military dominance and offers a different vision rooted in diplomacy, cooperation, and peace.

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

10/25 The tax code isn't just about how much we pay. It's about who holds wealth and power. Our current tax policy fuels inequality and reforming it matters for a more accountable democracy.

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

8/25 What comes after Trump's dismantling of federal institutions? Simply restoring the old system isn't enough. We have an opportunity to rethink what government should do and whom it should serve.

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

6/25 Women's health care has never received the attention or investment it deserves. @laurenarankin.bsky.social makes the case that fixing it requires confronting systemic inequities, medical bias, and the erosion of bodily autonomy.

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

4/25 What if making life more affordable wasn't nearly as complicated as politicians make it sound? @rainesford.bsky.social found that states and cities are already testing solutions, from guaranteed income to universal child care.

🧵Next week we're publishing the final installment of our Repairing America series, which examines voting rights. For months, we've been asking a question that too often gets lost in the daily political chaos: What would it actually take to fix this country?

2/25 Over the past six months, an extraordinary group of writers and reporters has investigated America's most urgent problems—not simply to document what's broken, but to ask how we got here and what it would take to fix it. Their reporting is the heart of this series. Here's what we've learned.👇

🧵We're being told AI is the future. That we should embrace it, adapt to it, and stop asking so many questions. But who decided we wanted a future where algorithms cut off healthcare, surveillance is everywhere, and Big Tech gets to make the rules?

4/5 But here's what Big Tech doesn't want us to believe: We actually have a choice. Communities are organizing against data centers. Attorneys are challenging harmful algorithms. Advocates are demanding regulation.

🧵We're being told AI is the future. That we should embrace it, adapt to it, and stop asking so many questions. But who decided we wanted a future where algorithms cut off healthcare, surveillance is everywhere, and Big Tech gets to make the rules?

2/5 In Arkansas, an algorithm slashed Medicaid home-care benefits for people with severe disabilities. Civil rights attorney @kevindeliban.bsky.social fought back and won. Proof that we don't have to accept the harms of AI as inevitable.

🧵Remember when we were told Russiagate was a distraction? That concerns about Trump's relationship with Putin were just political hysteria? Nearly a decade later, all we see is continued aid and comfort to an adversary. We're revisiting what we published in 2018.

4/5 The questions she raised remain urgent. What happens when a U.S. president's policies benefit an authoritarian government?

🧵Remember when we were told Russiagate was a distraction? That concerns about Trump's relationship with Putin were just political hysteria? Nearly a decade later, all we see is continued aid and comfort to an adversary. We're revisiting what we published in 2018.

2/5 Trump has struck a diesel deal with Putin, waived Russian sanctions, and publicly suggested Zelenskyy should be replaced. His administration has also delayed approval of Patriot missiles. And now there are questions about Starlink disruptions affecting Ukraine's defenses.