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I have some friends in their mid-70s who have only left their home a handful of times over the last
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Two weeks ago, I compared the course of the COVID outbreaks in Florida and California in this post, highlighting the
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I am guessing that if you asked the average Houstonian how they would feel about increasing the number of City
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I recently finished John Barry’s seminal work on the pandemic that spanned 1918-20, The Great Influenza.  Beginning in the spring
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Several weeks ago, I began tracking total U.S. fatalities last year compared to this year and noted in this blog
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Harris County Property Taxes Rose Three Times Inflation and Population According to the recently released financial statements, Harris County’s property
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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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