by jpitney | Feb 24, 2020 | Civic Education
Colleen Flaherty at Inside Higher Ed: File it under “possible ways to save the republic”? Purdue University may soon require that all undergraduates, from art historians to wildlife biologists, take and pass a civics test to obtain their degrees. A number of...
by jpitney | Feb 22, 2020 | Deliberation
At LegBranch.org, Sarah Anderson, Daniel Butler, and Laurel Harbridge-Yong write that transparency may have contributed to legislative gridlock. One promising solution, even in this polarized context, is allowing legislators more room to negotiate compromise solutions...
by jpitney | Feb 21, 2020 | China, Nixon
As History.com notes, Nixon went to China on this date in 1972: The American fear of a monolithic communist bloc had been modified, as a war of words—and occasional border conflicts—erupted between the Soviet Union and the PRC in the 1960s. Nixon, and National...
by jpitney | Feb 20, 2020 | Journalism, Newspapers
Sara Fischer at Axios: The New York Times said earlier this month that it passed $800 million in annual digital revenue, most of which came from the 5 million+ people that now subscribe to the paper’s digital subscription offering. The Wall Street Journal said...
by jpitney | Feb 19, 2020 | Journalism
Ahana Datta at The Columbia Journalism Review: It has long been the case that state actors and big companies have sought to intimidate and attack journalists. But in my experience the incidence has spiked since the 2016 elections in Britain and America, when such...
