America enters 2021 still in the grip of a pandemic. One of the reasons coronavirus continues to burrow ever deeper into our society is the attack on science has succeeded; sufficient numbers […]
ICYMI: We must stop destroying our institutions
America enters 2021 still in the grip of a pandemic. One of the reasons coronavirus continues to burrow ever deeper into our society is the attack on science has succeeded; sufficient numbers […]
We must stop destroying our institutions
America enters 2021 still in the grip of a pandemic. One of the reasons coronavirus continues to burrow ever deeper into our society is the attack on science has succeeded; sufficient numbers […]
THE ATLANTIC: Russians ready to disrupt 2020 election
By now, the narrative is well told: Russia assisted in Donald Trump winning the 2016 presidential election, and Trump has returned the favor by seeking to destroy longstanding democratic institutions. You can […]
Is it a healthy democracy, if…
…one in four Americans think shutting down a news outlet is acceptable… …16 percent of us would happily move to another country… …far too many of us fear any kind of political […]
Britain reminds us just how fragile democracy can be
It’s Britain, you say, so who cares? Well, consider what is happening there now and ask if it could be repeated in the U.S? As the New York Times reminds us, Once […]
America’s descent into fascism continues. And its people remain compliant as it happens.
America’s descent into fascism continues. And its citizens remain compliant as it happens. Like the inevitable drip-drip of torture, Americans watch silently, seemingly content to suffer as their president on a daily […]
Orthodoxy
If there is one consistent tenet to our political nonsense these days, it’s the idea that we should be independent thinkers who must agree with the prevailing political wisdom. But the wisdom […]
Bill Clinton wouldn’t have remained president today
Twenty years ago, Americans made rather clear they didn’t think Bill Clinton’s extramarital affairs warranted throwing him out as President of the United States. If Clinton had been president now, he’d likely […]
America’s right played a better (and perhaps sinister) political game than the left; the spoils of victory are now theirs
The New Yorker examines how the imminent shift to the right of the Supreme Court affirms that conservatives and their backers played a better political game than their opponents on the left. […]
You want to get young adults to the voting booth?
Then make sure they take a journalism class. Phys.org explains. The researchers analyzed data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, a survey from the U.S. Department of Education of a random […]
A few takeaways from a two-week academic seminar
Now it’s time to assess and process. Two weeks of guest speakers, site visits, readings, and conversations came to a close yesterday as The Washington Center‘s academic seminar ended. Washington insiders ranging […]
