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The most recent numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics show that there were about 527,000 more fatalities in
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In 2006, Rick Perry was elected governor even though 61% of voters voted against him. That year, there were four
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For the last two weeks (ending March 20), Texas saw another large drop in hospitalizations and fatalities.
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Since today is St. Patrick’s Day, I wanted to share with you that a few years ago I discovered my
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Over the last two weeks (ending March 13), all COVID metrics continued to fall at steady rates and vaccinations continued
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Last week when President Biden was asked about Governor Abbott rolling back COVID restrictions, he described it as “neanderthal thinking.
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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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