by jpitney | Nov 13, 2024 | Budget, Public Administration
Andrew Rudalevige at Good Authority: Probably the closest quasi-recent parallel is the President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control in the Federal Government, convened by Ronald Reagan in 1982. PPSSCCFG was hardly a mellifluous acronym, so the body was usually...
by jpitney | Nov 12, 2024 | Mass Media, Public Opinion
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by jpitney | Nov 10, 2024 | Russia, Ukraine
Zelensky: “We aren’t ready to give our freedom to this f*cking terrorist Putin.” pic.twitter.com/sSmg2CmJDw — Lee West (@WhoDat35) November 10, 2024
by jpitney | Nov 9, 2024 | Democracy, Madison, Uncategorized
Nathan Gardels at Noema: To base the idea of democracy solely on elections invites illiberalism because it implies that majoritarian rule is all that is necessary. But, as the American founding fathers well understood, the will of the majority does not embrace all...
by jpitney | Nov 8, 2024 | Congress
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: The lame-duck Congress over the next two months is not expected to produce any dramatic major final acts. One benefit of the lame duck period though is the opportunity for transition planning, especially for the new Congress and, in a...
