by jpitney | Jan 31, 2020 | Journalism
From the Committee to Protect Journalists: January 30, 2020—As news coverage increases of the U.S. 2020 presidential election campaign, the Committee to Protect Journalists today released safety resources for the media. The safety kit includes information for editors,...
by jpitney | Jan 30, 2020 | Debate, Deliberation
Joel Fox at Fox and Hounds: Listening to the raucous audience frequently interfering at last night’s Los Angeles District Attorney election debate rekindled a question I’ve thought about before– why are audiences permitted at major political debates—including...
by jpitney | Jan 29, 2020 | Debt, Economic Policy
Phillip L. Swagel, CBO’s Director: As a result of the persistently large deficits, federal debt held by the public is projected to rise to $31.4 trillion at the end of 2030—an amount equal to 98 percent of GDP. At that point, debt would be higher as a percentage of...
by jpitney | Jan 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Here are the results: We have a tie for first place: Amanda Kandasamy and Josie Savaria Watson Second place: Nandeeni Patel Third Place: Talia Bromberg Honorable mention: Yara Ismael and Cameron Hendrickson
by jpitney | Jan 27, 2020 | Civility
Robert Wilkes at Divided We Fall: In America the people are sovereign. That’s a premise we can all agree on, right? See! Civility isn’t so hard. We agree already! Well, no… It is actually quite hard, as we all know, and it’s getting worse. If civility continues to...
