by jpitney | Feb 6, 2021 | Biden, Civility
John Froonjian, executive director of the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University, at The Press of Atlantic City: Last May, the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University launched a series of group discussions about the...
by jpitney | Feb 5, 2021 | Civility, Polarization
Aversive partisanship (aka negative partisanship) is a threat to civility and civil society. Maggie Koerth and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux at FiveThirtyEight: Four years ago, Lilliana Mason learned something she really, really hoped wasn’t true. A political scientist who...
by jpitney | Feb 4, 2021 | Biden, Journalism
Morgan Gstalter at The HIll: Nearly all of the members of Maryland’s congressional delegation signed a letter to President Biden on Thursday asking him to posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the five people killed in the Capital Gazette newsroom...
by jpitney | Feb 2, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Uncategorized
From Axios: Some 70% of bills enacted in the last Congress had at least one Republican and one Democrat co-sponsor, highlighting the need for bipartisanship to get things done under current House and Senate rules, according to data from Quorum provided to Axios’...
by jpitney | Feb 1, 2021 | Biden, Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Deliberation, Democracy, Polarization
A release from the University of Virginia Center for Politics Responding to President Joe Biden’s inaugural request to end the “uncivil war” in America, the University of Virginia Center for Politics is launching a yearlong national Civility Project in an effort to...
