by jpitney | Nov 23, 2021 | Deliberation, Public Opinion
Ted Van Green at Pew: The share of Americans who say having political conversations with those they disagree with is “stressful and frustrating” has increased in recent years. Nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults (59%) say they find these conversations stressful, up from 50%...
by jpitney | Oct 2, 2021 | Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: By attempting to short-circuit and compress committee and floor workloads, Congress is losing both its deliberative capacity and its ability to provide a proper check on the executive branch. The longer-term danger is that such truncated...
by jpitney | Aug 5, 2021 | Civility, Deliberation, Polarization
Across Talk is a new monthly video series hosted by Lincoln Zaleski, a disinformation specialist at Renew America Together. In our fifth episode, Lincoln chats with Selene Swanson, a Research Fellow at the Project on International Peace and Security. Selene describes...
by jpitney | Jul 10, 2021 | Deliberation, Democracy
Nathan Gardels at Noema: “The growing gap between the governed and their governments cannot be filled by our representative systems alone,” Kalypso Nicolaïdis writes in Noema this week. “What we need is a more continuous dynamic, a permanent commitment to democratic...
by jpitney | Jul 9, 2021 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Congress, Debate, Deliberation
Daniel Stid at National Affairs: American politicians must do more to defend our political system. One way to do so is by upholding the range of competing viewpoints as a feature, not a bug, of our democracy. The diversity of views that will inevitably characterize an...
by jpitney | Jul 1, 2021 | Congress, Coronavirus, Deliberation, House of Representatives
Don Wolfsenberger at The Hill: Just before adjournment on Monday, the House Clerk read a letter from the Sergeant-at-Arms declaring, after consultation with the Attending Physician, that the pandemic health emergency remains in effect, thereby extending to mid-August...
