Data-Driven Discussion on Public Policy and Politics
From the beginning of the COVID epidemic, the working construct has been that the spread of the coronavirus would inevitably
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For the last two weeks (ending August 15) the national COVID metrics showed some modest improvement. Testing I have previously
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Memphis, Texas is located in the panhandle on SH287.  The US Census estimated its 2019 population at just shy of
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For CDC Weeks 31 & 32 (ending 8/1 & 8/8) the COVID stats for Texas were all over the place,
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One of the things that students learn in their first logic class is the fallacy of a false dilemma, which
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Let me begin this post with a caveat.  I have never been less confident about the data we are getting
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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.