by jpitney | Oct 19, 2022 | Congress, Debate, Elections
Lisa Lerer and Jazmine Ulloa at NYT: Candidates for senator or governor routinely used to participate in two or three debates. Now some are skipping them altogether. Retail politicking at diners and state fairs is no longer the cliché it was for generations....
by jpitney | Oct 18, 2022 | Polarization
Charles Homans and Alyce McFadden at NYT: As a new poll suggests, the increasingly stark ideological divides of American politics have come with personal consequences. Nearly one in five voters — 19 percent — said that politics had hurt their friendships or family...
by jpitney | Oct 17, 2022 | Democracy
From the National Endowment for Democracy: On October 25-27, 2022, the World Movement for Democracy will hold its 11th Global Assembly in Taipei, Taiwan, to strengthen solidarity among democracy advocates around the world in their efforts to build a free world. Some...
by jpitney | Oct 16, 2022 | Journalism, Newspapers
Rachyl Jones at The Observer: Gannett, publisher of USA Today and hundreds of other newspapers, is instituting major cost cutting measures amid a “deteriorating macroeconomic environment,” CEO Mike Reed said in an internal memo obtained by the New York Times. The...
