by jpitney | Nov 9, 2020 | Democracy, Foreign Policy, House of Representatives
From the House Democracy Partnership: A bipartisan commission of the U.S. House of Representatives, the House Democracy Partnership (HDP) works with countries around the world to support the development of effective, independent and responsive legislatures. Using...
by jpitney | Nov 8, 2020 | Biden, civic virtue, Civility, Lincoln, Presidency
President-elect Biden: And to those who voted for President Trump, I understand your disappointment tonight. I’ve lost a couple of elections myself. But now, let’s give each other a chance. It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric. To lower the temperature. To see...
by jpitney | Nov 5, 2020 | civic virtue, Civility, Elections, Uncategorized
Yuval Levin at AEI: At the heart of our pervasive crisis of alienation are widespread failures of responsibility, deep-seated cultural divisions and a deadly dearth of solidarity. Such challenges can seem impossibly immense when we look at our country from the top...
by jpitney | Nov 3, 2020 | Civility, Elections
Former Attorneys General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Michael B. Mukasey at The Washington Post: Our system can accommodate even ill feeling, and it has. Our second president, John Adams, famously left Washington in 1801 before Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as the third....
