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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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Has any country ever so publicly and consistently flogged itself for its imperfections and failures? Do these imperfections mean that
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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
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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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