by jpitney | Dec 15, 2025 | Civility, Technology
Jonathan Martin at POLITICO: While he first drew widespread national attention for his remarks after the Kirk killing, Cox has been aggressive as governor: Utah is suing Snapchat, has banned phones in classrooms and is now, I’m told by a source close to Cox, crafting...
by jpitney | Dec 14, 2025 | California Politics, Transportation
Robert Lewis and Lauren Hepler at CalMatters: Over the past decade, nearly 40,000 people have died and more than 2 million have been injured on California roads. As an ongoing CalMatters investigation has shown this year, time and again those crashes were caused by...
by jpitney | Dec 13, 2025 | Civility, Congress, Uncategorized
On the Understanding Congress podcast, political scientists Kevin Kosar and Brian Alexander discuss congressional norms: Kevin Kosar: One thing that pops into my mind is a member of Congress being condemned for conduct unbecoming of a member; not so much that they...
by jpitney | Dec 12, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger: A bipartisan group of roughly three dozen House members, led by Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.), have introduced a resolution to change House rules and require that a censure must be approved by 60 percent of members voting, not just...
by jpitney | Dec 10, 2025 | Civility, Violence
Colby Itkowitz and Yasmeen Abutaleb at WP: Josh Shapiro and Spencer Cox know firsthand what happens when political violence comes home. Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor who is widely expected to run for president in 2028, was asleep with his family when an...
