by jpitney | Apr 30, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Ukraine
From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: RFE/RL journalist Vira Hyrych has died in Kyiv after a Russian missile strike hit the residential building where she lived in the Ukrainian capital. Hyrych’s body was found early in the morning on April 29 amid the wreckage...
by jpitney | Apr 29, 2022 | Civility, Congress, Polarization, Social Media
Melanie Mason at LAT: It’s not your imagination. Political discourse on Twitter really has grown meaner in recent years, according to a new study. The research, published Thursday in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, found that the level of...
by jpitney | Apr 28, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, Senate
Sophia Cai at Axios: Amid bitter partisanship in the capital, rampant inflation across the country and a war raging in Ukraine, nearly two dozen women senators broke bread Tuesday night — and, Axios has learned, politics was decidedly off the menu. Why it...
by jpitney | Apr 27, 2022 | Public Opinion, Youth
From the Harvard Kennedy School: A national poll released today by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School indicates that while 18-to-29-year-olds are on track to match 2018’s record-breaking youth turnout in a midterm election this November and prefer...
by jpitney | Apr 26, 2022 | California Politics, Local Government, State Government, Uncategorized
At CalMatters, Dan Walters writes about California public policy, starting with an annual report by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association: This year’s version, called “Follow the Money 2021,” contains dozens of examples of how public funds have been...
