StratDem: On Clear & Present Dangers to Our Democratic Institutions —
Ken Burns: We Face Our Nation’s Fourth Great Crisis. There’s something fundamental at stake in the midterms this year, beyond policy differences…
As we go to the polls today in this most consequential of midterm elections, we face our country’s fourth great crisis. Because of misinformation, which the current administration encourages, age-old fears and conspiracies have created a sense of us versus them that is fundamentally at odds with a healthy democratic society. Elections are in doubt, the highest court seems compromised, history has been distorted, books have been banned, and dictators have been coddled while our closest allies have been ridiculed and dismissed. People are rightly concerned whether our institutions are at a breaking point.
NY Times
Opinion
November 3, 2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/03/opinion/midterm-elections-politics-ken-burns.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NlE.cHxn.0VT32eJUAcsB&smid=em-share
