by jpitney | Dec 7, 2019 | Civility, Education, Uncategorized
Thomas Gift and Andrew Miner at the Wall Street Journal: After the 2016 election, students from two high schools—one in Chicago and the other in rural Wisconsin—took turns visiting each other. The field trips were designed to help students understand each other’s...
by jpitney | Dec 6, 2019 | Congress, Science, Uncategorized
From the House Science Committee: EXPERTS NEEDED: OPTIONS FOR IMPROVED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVICE FOR CONGRESS DATE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2019 OPENING STATMENT Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) WITNESSES The Honorable Michael McCord, Director, Civil-Military...
by jpitney | Dec 4, 2019 | Civility, Public Opinion, Uncategorized
A June report from Weber Shandwick: The latest installment of Civility in America, an annual poll conducted by Weber Shandwick and Powell Tate, in partnership with KRC Research, once again finds that the majority of Americans perceive incivility to be a problem in our...
by jpitney | Dec 3, 2019 | Civility, Congress, Reagan, Social Security
At LegBranch,com, Philip A. Wallach recalls the “Gang of Nine” negotiations that led to the rescue of Social Security in the early 1980s. Nine was a small enough number to allow absolute secrecy in negotiations, as well as an intimate setting, in the home...
by jpitney | Dec 2, 2019 | China, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Uncategorized
Fred Hiatt at The Washington Post: To punish Gulchehra Hoja, a Washington-based journalist for Radio Free Asia, and to stifle her reporting, China’s rulers have imprisoned her brother, harassed her parents and threatened many other relatives back home in Xinjiang,...
