Data-Driven Discussion on Public Policy and Politics
This is a follow-up to my earlier post where I began to track the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 daily situation
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We are so early into the outbreak of COVID-19 it is dangerous to jump to many conclusions based on the
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Most mammals evolved with a herd instinct to run from danger.  If the person is running toward you screaming, it
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Many, including yours truly, were surprised by Donald Trump’s election. It was because we were not listening to the growing
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The International Energy Agency recently issued a report that global carbon emissions likely declined last year for the first time.
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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.