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There is so much misinformation being disseminated at the current round of “town hall” meetings it is hard to
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Many of you have heard by now that Houstonians will be voting on a proposition on the November ballot to
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One of the greatest hoaxes ever foisted on the Houston public is the claim that the Rebuild Houston program has
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I had dinner last week with some friends at a restaurant in the River Oaks area. When I went to"
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City Council voted yesterday to hold another vote on the Rebuild Houston proposition in November. You may recall that the
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The U.S. Treasury maintains a very interesting website that tracks detailed information about the national debt. One of the reports"
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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.