by jpitney | Dec 4, 2021 | Elections, Montana, Rural voters
Steve Bullock writes in NYT: I was re-elected as Montana’s governor in 2016 at the same time Donald Trump took our state by more than 20 points. It’s never easy for Democrats to get elected in Montana, because Democrats here are running against not only the opponent...
by jpitney | Dec 3, 2021 | Congress, Ethics, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: It became clear during the Rules Committee hearing on the Gosar case that the House Ethics Committee chair, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) was not anxious to wade into such a swamp every time there was an errant, online hiccup. His committee...
by jpitney | Dec 2, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Crime, Police
At Dividied We Fall, Michael Javen Fortner writes: “This concerted nationwide attack on police is nothing less than the gravest assault on the rule of law in modern times,” U.S. Senator Tom Cotton blared a few months ago. In a partisan broadside, he added, “The simple...
by jpitney | Dec 1, 2021 | Journalism, Journalists, Newspapers
Margaret Sullivan at WP: Already in a sharp downward spiral, the local news industry was hit hard by the covid-19 pandemic. The worst blows were taken by newspapers — businesses that, as a group, had never recovered from the digital revolution and the 2008 recession....
by jpitney | Nov 30, 2021 | Deliberation
Clinician Richard A. Friedman at The Washington Post: Here’s an exercise that might boost your empathy: Listen carefully to someone you want to communicate with better, and choose something they said or did that you don’t like or agree with. Now imagine at least two...
