by jpitney | Oct 31, 2025 | Congress, Senate, Separation of Powers
Don Wolfensberger writes that there are four key things to consider in determining how much the Senate has deviated from its originally planned track. First, the Senate is not, as it might claim, the world’s greatest deliberative body. Deliberation has gone the way of...
by jpitney | Oct 30, 2025 | Journalism, Public Opinion
Kirsten Eddy and Elisa Shearer at Pew: Overall, 56% of U.S. adults now say they have a lot of or some trust in the information they get from national news organizations – down 11 percentage points since March 2025 and 20 points since we first asked this question in...
by jpitney | Oct 28, 2025 | civic virtue, Education, Religion
How Religious Schools Strengthen Our Republic Religion and the American Experiment, Volume 1 Written by Samuel J. Abrams, Sutherland Institute October 2025 There are at least four mechanisms through which religious schools cultivate democratic virtues: 1....
by jpitney | Oct 27, 2025 | Civic Education, Higher Education
Benjamin Sotrey and Jenna Silber Storey at AEI: Schools of Civic Thought are entirely new academic units, with the same powers as other departments, dedicated to offering university-level civic education. Since citizenship is always exercised in a particular time and...
by jpitney | Oct 26, 2025 | California Politics, Law, Local Government, Los Angeles, Uncategorized
Rebecca Ellis at LAT: Fesia Davenport, L.A. County’s chief executive officer, received a $2-million settlement related to Measure G, according to a letter released by the county counsel. Davenport had sought damages over “reputational harm, embarrassment, and...
