The Casady Blog
Democracy Dies in Darkness
My father was a newspaper man. After managing three newspapers in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where I was born, my dad became the editor of the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette. They were the morning and afternoon newspapers in Phoenix, Arizona,...
Defending Women: The Birth of a Surprising Coalition
Coalitions have long been a powerful tool for creating change in America. In 2008, for example, Barack Obama’s path to The White House was paved by a coalition of several voting blocs, including progressives, white working-class voters, racial minorities,...
America’s Mass Shooting Epidemic: Six Ways to End It
The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group that tracks gun violence using police reports, news coverage, and other public sources, defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people are killed or injured. As of March 27th, the archive had...
We Need To Vote Like Our Democracy Depends On It
In 1968, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was running in the presidential primary. Having won in Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Washington D.C., but having narrowly lost in Oregon, he was campaigning hard to win in California. On one of his campaign swings, he...
The Greed Fueling Gun Violence
In my memoir, Not Your Father’s America: An Adventure Raising Triplets in a Country Being Changed by Greed, I write about a roughly 18-year window from 1995, when our triplet sons were born, until 2013. That’s when we watched them go off to college and our house...