Data-Driven Discussion on Public Policy and Politics
In the last two weeks (ending December 6), the outbreak of COVID in the central part of the country slowly
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Recently, two papers on the death toll from COVID have gotten widespread attention.  The first was a CDC update on
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All stats for COVID in Texas for the last two weeks (ending November 28) worsened.  However, the increase in hospitalizations
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In 1840, British epidemiology pioneer submitted a paper to the British government outlining his findings that the outbreak of epidemics
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In the last two weeks (ending November 21), US COVID stats continued to be driven by a major outbreak in
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The City recently issued its monthly financials for the first quarter of its fiscal year (July-September). The City has obviously
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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.