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Some of the Houston chamber-of-commerce boosters frequently claim that the area’s economy has diversified away from oil and gas.  While
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I recently completed Factualness. It was written by Hans Rosling, a Swedish physician. It is an absolute must read. Rosling
learn moreYesterday the FBI released the crime statistics for 2018. Those numbers confirm precisely what I have been saying on the campaign trail. Violent crime, after years of decline, has gone up dramatically since Sylvester Turner took office.
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Once again hundreds of Houston families are waking up from the nightmare of floodwater rushing into their homes. They, and everyone
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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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