by jpitney | Aug 26, 2020 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Oversight, Separation of Powers
Molly E. Reynolds at Lawfare: Often, proposals to increase Congress’s capacity to oversee the executive branch fall victim to partisanship, with members of the president’s party being reluctant to support reforms that limit his power. Importantly, however, several of...
by jpitney | Aug 25, 2020 | Civility, Mass Media, Polarization, Social Media
At RealClearPolitics, Celinda Lake and Ed Goeas offer four concrete suggestions for restoring civility to public discourse: Political leaders have to police their own. Change the channel. Think before retweeting. Try to understand the motivations of the other...
by jpitney | Aug 24, 2020 | Civility
by jpitney | Aug 23, 2020 | International Relations, Journalism, Mass Media
Megan Janetsky at Poynter: As news budgets were slashed over past decades, foreign bureaus were the first to go. We were the ones to replace them: an army of freelancers fighting for work week to week and wondering if our editors knew, or even cared, about the risks...
by jpitney | Aug 22, 2020 | Civility
Prof. Ryan Fowler at PennLive: Loud partisan talking points and hurling ideological platitudes at one another is in direct conflict with the (com-/cum-) prefix of the word “communication.” In fact, the Latin word that communication derives from–communicare–actually...
