Data-Driven Discussion on Public Policy and Politics
Another grid collapse could devastate Texas. Senate Bill 3 has been proposed to address any future grid failures but it leaves a massive loophole that needs to be filled.
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According to a New York City council member, the man that almost single-handily wrote the Declaration of Independence "embodies some of the most shameful parts of our country’s history.”
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CDC has released data about the COVID vaccine breakthroughs, but the data could be incomplete.
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New COVID statistics show that Delta is already on the decline in Texas and throughout the United States.
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Local elections in Texas are now seeing groups get involved from California, Florida, and New York. This is creating a more scandals and issues for local elections than ever before.
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With hospitalizations down, it looks like the current delta variant wave of COVID has peaked in the United States.
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American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer merely argue; they cut off contact with each other. In short, the two-party system is breaking our democracy, and driving us all crazy.
Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting edge political science research, Drutman tells the story of how American politics became so toxic, why the country is trapped in a doom loop of escalating two-party warfare, and why it is destroying the shared sense of fairness and legitimacy on which democracy depends.