Data-Driven Discussion on Public Policy and Politics
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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A number of readers have asked me for the various websites I have been using in my previous posts on
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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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Looking at the experience of other countries, it appears that it is possible to avoid draconian shutdowns with extensive testing
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This is follow-up to my earlier posts where I began to track the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 daily situation reports
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Many people think this famous FDR quote came during the war. But actually, it was a line from his first
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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.