Data-Driven Discussion on Public Policy and Politics
For CDC Weeks 31 & 32 (ending 8/1 & 8/8) the COVID stats for Texas were all over the place,
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One of the things that students learn in their first logic class is the fallacy of a false dilemma, which
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Let me begin this post with a caveat.  I have never been less confident about the data we are getting
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Michael Shellenberger has been a quintessential liberal activist.  He organized a local chapter of Amnesty International.  He moved to San
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All of us who have been following the COVID data streams have known they are a mess. We have known
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During CDC Weeks 29 & 30 (ending 7/18 & 7/25) Texas experienced its highest level of COVID-19 fatalities since the
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STORIES FROM ACROSS AMERICA ON THE ISSUES THAT MATTER MOST
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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.
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