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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. Will Rogers, circa 1928 Watching the
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For as long as I can remember, every candidate for mayor or council in Houston has pledged to increase the
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Insulting people does not work, if your objective is to persuade.” - Trey Gowdy, In a speech at Liberty University,
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The outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus in China has dominated the news in the last month.  While I commend officials
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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties
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Of the 27,514 refugees admitted to the U.S. in 2019 under the U.S. Refugee Admission Program1, 21,544 (78.3%) were Christians
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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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