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From early in the COVID outbreak, the curtailment of the pandemic by attaining herd immunity has been dismissed because the
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For CDC Weeks 33 & 34 (ending 8/15 & 8/22) the COVID stats for Texas left most of us trying
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Correlation ≠ Causation I have lost count at the number of times I have rolled my eyes since the outbreak
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From the beginning of the COVID epidemic, the working construct has been that the spread of the coronavirus would inevitably
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For the last two weeks (ending August 15) the national COVID metrics showed some modest improvement. Testing I have previously
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Memphis, Texas is located in the panhandle on SH287.  The US Census estimated its 2019 population at just shy of
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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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