On Wednesday, I participated in a Quincy Institute virtual roundtable on "The Summit for Democracy" It was a bit odd. I'm pretty sure that I was supposed to play "liberal.
I agree that arguing about which twenty-first century national election was "the most important" is a bit of an intellectual parlor game. The answer really depends on your prior theory.
Source: Freedom House Apropos of Scott's previous post, the Brussels Sprouts podcast has a very good rundown with Dan Kelemen and Zselyke Csaky. You should give it a listen. https://soundcloud.com/brussels-sprouts/autocratization-in-central-europe-with-dan-kelemen-and-freedom-houses-zselyke-csaky
Senate Republicans appear poised to block a bipartisan investigation of the first non-peaceful transfer of executive power in modern American history. McConnell has found some procedural objections to hide behind,.
Well, then. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told a federal court that hundreds of high-speed mail sorting machines he ordered removed cannot be returned to service because they were stripped for.
Political Wire's Consensus Electoral Vote Map More than 200,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. If the United States was governed by a barely competent and vaguely public-spirited administration, the country.
Ishaan Tharoor has a very good discussion of the broader context of Trump's meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda. Though accustomed to lectures from Brussels, Duda and his allies are.
As my spouse pointed out this morning, it's certainly eyebrow-raising that on the same day Trump initiated a phone call with Putin he also ordered Federal law enforcement to cosplay.
