Milan Svolik is the Elizabeth S. & A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of the 2012 book The Politics of Authoritarian Rule. He has also published a variety of influential journal articles such as “Polarization Versus Democracy”, “When Polarization Trumps Civic Virtue”, and “In Europe, Democracy Erodes from the Right.” The Democracy…Read More

Photo by Marino Linic on UnsplashI have a longstanding aversion towards the kind of pseudo-psychological commentary that dominates modern political punditry, but you don’t have to be a licensed therapist to notice something deeply unhealthy emanating from Silicon Valley this week. Here’s Marc Andreseen’s latest appearance on Tech Bro Glazing Podcast #8593:David: You don’t have any levels of introspection? Marc:…Read More

Laura Sánchez-Parkinson is a resident of Burlington, VT and recently elected City Councilor. She grew up in a mixed-status immigrant family. Growing up in a mixed-status family, where different family members hold different immigration statuses, you become acutely aware of both the risks and the responsibilities that come with being the only U.S. citizen in the household. At an early…Read More

The shadow chancellor Mel Stride has been criticised for claiming that the government wants to reverse Brexit and that it should stop blaming Brexit for the UK’s economic woes.  Delivering the Mais Lecture at Bayes Business School today, Rachel Reeves said “Brexit did deep damage”. She added that although trade deals with India, the US and other allies are “extremely…Read More

I guess the big news this week will be the first hearing on SB 1 (Townsend), which seeks to contain excessive healthcare charges from Delaware’s hospitals.  That hearing takes place tomorrow at 10 am in the Senate Chamber.  The livestream link can be found here.  The irony of Townsend, as sponsor, and ChristianaCare’s Ray Seigfried, […] Source link delawareliberal.netRead More

When Kamala Harris announced that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz would be her running mate in 2024, my first reaction was curious optimism for the Democratic ticket. I hadn’t followed Walz’s career especially closely, but I was familiar enough with him to know that he hailed from a rural area of a Midwestern state and that he had been a Blue…Read More

The pack mentality of ripping Chris Hipkins to pieces until he cried over his children is one of the saddest… Source link thedailyblog.co.nzRead More

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Recent attacks in the Middle East on desalination plants, facilities that remove salt from seawater, raise the potential for a humanitarian crisis if the region’s freshwater production facilities are subjected to more widespread destruction. The attacks also underscore the region’s heavy reliance on an energy-intensive…Read More

The North Carolina Supreme Court currently has a 5-2 Republican majority; the Court of Appeals holds a 12-3 Republican majority. Although North Carolina’s justice system should administer the law without fear or favor, regardless of party, the current 5-2 Supreme Court majority has recently taken a hard tack into extraordinarily partisan territory, following a plan… The post Rising Stakes of…Read More

Over in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the always smart Will Bunch has a column out this week that warns that our current Iran clusterfuck is already reminiscent of our Vietnam clusterfuck and is already a lost cause: “We should still take one lesson from Vietnam. We should face the honest, painful truth. It took America 20 tortured years, an unspeakable death…Read More