by jpitney | Mar 4, 2022 | Budget, Congress
Lee Hamilton: Back in 2019, the House created the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, with an equal number of members of both parties. In the time since then, it’s made recommendations on everything from making Congress more accessible to people with...
by jpitney | Mar 3, 2022 | China, Civility, Russia
Daniel Stid: War and international conflict are crude but effective forges of discipline and unity. We often look back on mid-Twentieth Century America as a golden era of civic comity. We overlook the extent to which the crucible of World War II and then the Cold War,...
by jpitney | Mar 2, 2022 | Crime
Prof. Michael Fortner at NYT: It’s critical for reformers not to misread the great racial awakening. Even as many took to the streets to “defund the police,” city residents, especially those who have endured histories of overpolicing and underprotection, hold...
by jpitney | Mar 1, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Misinformation, Ukraine
Factcheck.org: Quick Take “Bernie Gores” was not killed in Afghanistan in August, and he wasn’t the “first American casualty of the Ukraine crisis.” He doesn’t exist. But Facebook users were faked out by fabricated tweets that purport to show CNN announcing the death...
