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44 votes
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What if US public housing were for everyone?
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What Israel should do now: Israel’s current approach is clearly wrong. Here’s a better way to fight Hamas — and win.
26 votes -
The conservative push for “school choice” has had its most successful year ever
44 votes -
How Turkey is ruining NATO's moment of unity – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is blocking the quick membership addition of Sweden and Finland to the alliance
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How “Z” became Putin’s latest propaganda meme for the war against Ukraine
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James Carville on the state of Democratic politics
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Why Vladimir Putin wants Alexei Navalny dead
8 votes -
Trump is attempting a coup in plain sight
18 votes -
How the Beirut explosion was a government failure
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Trump eliminates federal anti-racism training, calling it “a sickness”
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With Obama saying "the filibuster is a 'Jim Crow relic' ”, it’s looking more and more like Democrats will abolish the filibuster if they win back the Senate
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Amy McGrath wins close Kentucky Senate primary
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Meet the Romney-Gary Johnson-Bloomberg voter who’s embracing Black Lives Matter
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Bernie Sanders' changing position on immigration explained
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Why conservative intellectuals like Viktor Orbán
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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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The president’s job is to manage risk. But Donald Trump is the risk: Donald Trump was a gamble. It’s not paying off.
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Rep. Justin Amash ends his third-party White House bid: Amash said the timing wasn’t right, in large part because of the coronavirus pandemic
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US polling suggests Tara Reade's allegations are having a moderate effect on public opinion of Joe Biden
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The UK Labour party has a new leader: Keir Starmer
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Why the two-party system is the root of the problems in the US's constitutional democracy
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The Trump-Fox & Friends feedback loop explained
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How asymmetrical polarization has changed American politics
9 votes -
How India runs the world's largest election
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Joe Biden’s effort to heal the breach with Elizabeth Warren on bankruptcy, explained
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'Bernie bros' and the debate about how to deal with the "dirtbag left" explained
7 votes -
Rupert Murdoch actually tried to stop Trump, and he won't try to again
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Fixing the debates: A better way to interrupt?
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The Democrats do terribly in state elections and it really matters
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Vox just made four videos on the strengths of the 2020 frontrunners
The case for Bernie Sanders The case for Joe biden The case for Elizabeth Warren The case for Pete Buttigieg
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How American primaries shape the Presidential nomination
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“Flood the zone with shit”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy
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The Wall Streeters who actually like Elizabeth Warren
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Elizabeth Warren's new remedy for US corruption: A tax on lobbying
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Puerto Rico’s week of massive protests, explained
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India and Sri Lanka's violent fight over fish
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Sudan’s longtime leader was ousted in a military coup. Protesters still want democracy.
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Robert Mueller’s “collusion” case so far, explained
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The case for capping all prison sentences at twenty years
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What America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic (Interview with historian Edward Watts about his book "Mortal Republic")
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Why obvious lies make great propaganda
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America might be ready for democratic socialism. It’s not ready for the bill.
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A political scientist argues that the Democratic Party must play "procedural hardball" too: The Republicans aren’t engaged in a policy fight. instead, they’re waging a “procedural war.”
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