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A couple of months ago, I wrote that the Texas Employment Retirement System (“ERS”) was back in financial straits after
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For the last two weeks (ending April 17), COVID fatalities continued to decline while other metrics were mostly flat. The
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For the last two weeks (ending April 3), Texas continued to see a steadily decline in all COVID metrics. Hospitalizations
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Over the last two weeks (ending March 27), all COVID metrics continued to fall, but in the second week there
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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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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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