by jpitney | Nov 25, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives
Devin Dwyer,Benjamin Siegel,Amanda Maile, and Elizabeth Thomas at ABC: Millions of American workers have returned to the office, and most children are back to in-person learning at schools, but dozens of members of the U.S. House of Representatives are still literally...
by jpitney | Nov 24, 2021 | California Politics, Local Government, Redistricting, Uncategorized
The 2020 census found that Los Angeles County had slightly more than ten million people. Each of its five supervisors represents about two million. To put it another way, any supervisorial district has more people than the entire state of Nebraska. The immensity of...
by jpitney | Nov 23, 2021 | Deliberation, Public Opinion
Ted Van Green at Pew: The share of Americans who say having political conversations with those they disagree with is “stressful and frustrating” has increased in recent years. Nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults (59%) say they find these conversations stressful, up from 50%...
by jpitney | Nov 23, 2021 | Journalism, Journalists
Sara Fischer at Axios: Lawmakers, local reporters and journalism advocates are sounding the alarm over a takeover attempt of local newspaper group Lee Enterprises by Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for cutting journalists at local papers to maximize profits....
by jpitney | Nov 22, 2021 | civic virtue, Congress, Constitution, Insurrection
In Betrayal, Jonathan Karl publishes excerpts from a speech that Liz Cheney had planned to deliver on January 6: We are bound by a solemn oath, given before God, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. We cannot comply with that oath only when it is...
