Data-Driven Discussion on Public Policy and Politics
Want a killer Trivial Pursuit question? How about this? While Barack Obama was President, did the debt of the Federal
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The trail of TIRZ/Management District horrors continues. This time it is the Montrose Management District (MMD). The MMD was formed
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On Friday, HGAC’s Transportation Policy Council (TPC) tabled a funding request from the Uptown TIRZ for an additional $16 million
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The following is a speech that Secretary Baker recently gave to a group at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church. I pass 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.