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The stats for COVID in Texas for the last two weeks (ending November 14) continued to rise in most parts
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In the last two weeks (ending November 7), US COVID stats have been driven by a major outbreak in the
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In the wake of the election results this week, there have been dozens of articles, like this one in the
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The stats for COVID in Texas for the last two weeks (ending October 31) were dominated by outbreaks in El
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For the last two weeks (ending October 24), there were clear signs of increasing infection in the US as hospitalizations
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A group of the world’s top epidemiologists and medical researchers set off a fire storm of controversy recently by issuing
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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.