Data-Driven Discussion on Public Policy and Politics
While data shows COVID-19 may not be going anywhere, but some modeling suggests that might not be the case.
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COVID vaccines should be mandated in areas of high risk, including senior care facilities.
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Updated COVID fatality numbers have been released, and the CDC's data regarding seniors has been grossly underreported.
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Being in the minority party has resulted in Republicans and Democrats fleeing their responsibility and our democracy.
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At the end of June, it appeared COVID was on its last legs. But it has staged an alarming comeback
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If the predominant media narrative is to be believed, it is primarily white, evangelical, Trump voters who are dragging down
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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.