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New state-level model from Imperial College London suggests that epidemic is not under control in most American states, predicts major surge in cases and deaths over next two months
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Yet another political map simulator
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During Michigan's COVID-19 response, anti-social distancing protests were promoted by a small set of activists linked to the 2012-era, anti-union so-called "right-to-work" movement
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America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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How America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead: As racism warps the US pandemic response, a health crisis has escalated into a culture war
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The pandemic has pushed Biden to the left. How far will he go?
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People are worried about BlackRock
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GOP builds massive voter suppression machine for 2020 election
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CDC is conflating viral and antibody tests. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same
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Federal judge rules that all Texas voters can apply to vote by mail amid coronavirus pandemic: "the Grim Reaper's scepter of death" is "far more serious than an unsupported fear of voter fraud"
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Donald Trump’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): Assault on US labor in the pandemic era
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The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5 million to build the case for a universal basic income
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NASA is naming its newest space telescope for pioneering astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, marking the first time in the agency’s history that one of its major programs has been named for a woman
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Garlic shortage hits, a side effect of the coronavirus pandemic
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We’re not polarized enough: Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics
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Poll: More voters trust Biden to contain coronavirus spread
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America’s only public bank, the Bank of North Dakota, is number one in saving small businesses
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United States seeks to change the rules for mining the Moon
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What recent special elections can tell us about November's US election: They may throw cold water on the idea that 2020 will be another “blue wave”
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Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada after tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers claiming its talc products, including Johnson’s Baby Powder, caused their cancer
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S-Town podcast producers settle lawsuit with subject’s estate: suit filed in 2018 alleged the podcast used McLemore’s identity for a commercial purpose, violating Alabama's Right of Publicity law
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Roe of “Roe v. Wade” says Christian right paid her to be anti-choice mouthpiece
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Oceania explained
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A series of articles on the state of American democracy from early 2015 by Vox
American democracy is doomed ('constitutional hardball' is a great way to describe the 'modus operandi' of the Trump-McConnell GOP.) This is how the American system of government will die I found...
American democracy is doomed ('constitutional hardball' is a great way to describe the 'modus operandi' of the Trump-McConnell GOP.)
This is how the American system of government will die
I found their predictions to be kinda interesting (and clearly minimal)
The best-case scenario is that we wind up with an elective dictator but retain peaceful transitions of power. This is where I'd place my bet. Pure parliamentary systems, especially unicameral ones, give high levels of power to the prime minister and his cabinet, and manage to have peaceful transitions nonetheless. The same is true in Brazil, where the presidency is considerably more powerful than it is in the US.
But parliamentary systems also feature parties that are stronger than their leaders, which serve to prevent single individuals from garnering too much power. America's parties are getting more polarized, but they still aren't as strong as those of most other developed nations.
The worst-case scenario is if the presidency attains these powers and someone elected to the office decides to use them to punish political enemies, interfere with elections, suppress dissent, and so forth. Retaining an independent enough judiciary is a guard against this, but only if norms around obeying its rulings are strong. And, unusually, America allows for true independents, undisciplined by their parties, to become heads of government.
The US political system is not gonna collapse. It's gonna muddle though (A pretty interesting take. There are problems but people won't try to fix them but instead become disengaged and kinda forget about it.)
I think one of the things the authors missed while writing these this is how news became partidarized in the same manner, thus allowing outlets like Fox News to just consume the Republican electorate. They also missed how voting has been targeted too, and underestimated how willing the public was to act and how would the public react to this, which was by electing someone who didn't care about said broken Congress (or any sort of constitutionality), which is what became of Trump.
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