“What’s been most striking to me is just how one-sided the rules are when Americans take on their own government…. It has been dismaying to learn the extent to which rules and laws shield the government from accountability for its abuses—or even lawbreaking…. It’s been a long and frightening lesson…. The rules seem rigged to protect government lawlessness, and the playing field is uneven.

Every two years, independent and "third" party candidates for various offices scramble to get their names on ballots around the United States.

Every two years, those candidates come up against — and many of them fail to overcome — "ballot access" obstacles custom-made to produce the Republican/Democratic monopoly on political power.

WASHINGTON DC (June 11, 2020) — The Rutherford Institute delivered a strongly-worded rebuke to President Trump and members of his administration for invading, seizing, and occupying church property in violation of longstanding prohibitions against government encroachments on the free exercise of religion.

Every few years, some particular instance of a pervasive phenomenon — police violence in the form of unjustified or at least highly-questionable killings — "goes viral" with the result that America's cities explode in protest.