by jpitney | Jun 16, 2021 | Civility, Polarization
Mark Sappenfield at The Christian Science Monitor: [The] articles in our Respect Project argue [that] respect is an essential agent of progress and healing. Why? A recent interview in Politico offers some insight. In 1991, political scientist James Davison...
by jpitney | Jun 15, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, Deliberation
Donald Wolfensberger at The Hill: Those supporting ongoing bipartisan outreach… at least have history on their side. According to recent studies by such respected political scientists as Frances Lee and James Curry, in their book, “The Limits of Party” (2020),...
by jpitney | Jun 14, 2021 | China, Reagan
H.R. McMaster at National Review: President Ronald Reagan’s speech in June 1987, delivered in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, is immortalized because of the exhortation, “Mr. Gobachev, tear down this wall.” Those words and that speech are often credited with...
by jpitney | Jun 13, 2021 | Business, Mass Media, Newspapers
\ Jack Shafer at Politico: In 2009, just as the apocalypse befell the newspaper industry but while local news was still in relative abundance, many readers gave it an apathetic shrug. A Pew Research Center survey from that year found that an astonishing 42 percent...
by jpitney | Jun 12, 2021 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
Olympia Snowe and Tom Daschle at The Hill: We have followed the work of the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress with great interest. Since serving together in the United States Senate, both of us have been focused on the kinds of reforms...
