Search for Common Ground

by | Apr 27, 2021 | civic virtue, Civility

Kristen DelGuzzi at USA Today: More than a year ago  — before the pandemic, before two presidential impeachments, before the most divisive election in a generation, before the Capitol attack — we surveyed Americans about their thoughts on the lack of civility and...

Restoring Civil Debate

by | Apr 26, 2021 | Civility, Deliberation

John Halpin at The Liberal Patriot: Is there any way for citizens to restore effective and non-maddening political debate? It won’t be easy to reverse these trends given the ideological and partisan takeover of most institutions. But here are a few ideas:...

House Rules Tighten

by | Apr 25, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives

 Donald Wolfensberger at The Hill: As a denizen of the minority party during my first 26 years as a staffer in the House, I came to be quite an expert on majority party moves to counter minority party provocations. At one point, I even coined a bastardization of...

Black Views of the Police

by | Apr 24, 2021 | Civil Rights, Crime, Public Opinion

Michael Javen Fortner at City Journal: In a 2019 Pew survey, 44 percent of blacks reported being “unfairly stopped by police” because of their race; 54 percent said, “No, has not happened to me.” In a Monmouth poll taken after Floyd’s death, 44 percent of...