Data-Driven Discussion on Public Policy and Politics
I had a conversation with someone earlier this week about how we should respond to COVID-19.  During the conversation she
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The results of two California antibody studies have found that the portion of the population that has been exposed to
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There has been a narrative in the media recently that a handful of states that have not issued “stay-at-home” orders
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According to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), US transit ridership changed very little last year.  Total transit ridership topped
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This is a follow-up to my earlier posts where I began to track the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 daily situation
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It is better to be safe than sorry.”  Our mothers’ admonition rings in every one of our ears; And it
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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.