Data-Driven Discussion on Public Policy and Politics
Michael Shellenberger has been a quintessential liberal activist.  He organized a local chapter of Amnesty International.  He moved to San
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All of us who have been following the COVID data streams have known they are a mess. We have known
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During CDC Weeks 29 & 30 (ending 7/18 & 7/25) Texas experienced its highest level of COVID-19 fatalities since the
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The COVID statistics for the US for CDC Week 29 (ending July 18) got moderately worse as some parts of
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I am always amazed how so many people continue to believe that the world’s population is careening out of control.
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Through July 11, the State of Texas has reported 3,112 COVID-related fatalities according to the COVID Tracking Project (“CTP”).  For
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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.