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Senior program officer for research initiatives, Kettering Foundation. Political theorist, editor of From Many, We blog. Studies democracy, virtue ethics, Aristotle. Orioles fan. Opinions expressed here are mine.
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Meanwhile, voters in dark red parts of the country keep rejecting anti-trans politics when it is presented to them. Anti-trans candidates lose often. Anti-trans bills even stall out in some Republican legislatures. This just isn’t the poison pill Cowan thinks… but he wants it to be. He’s a bigot.
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We used to be at least average.
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Excuse me, something in my eye...
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Was it really elite failure though? Some institutions could perhaps have been more vocal but saving democracy and stopping Project 2025 was a central message of the campaign.
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Listen now to Part One of a candid conversation on culture wars, coalition shifts, and what we can do next for democracy on #TheContext: bit.ly/4jgCb2G
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Normal relative to the exceptional period of about 50 years that one of the few democracies has actually had a full democracy.
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It's not like MAGA was begging him to stay
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I wonder where they got the idea to deregulate AI
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Thanks Erin. This is the same paper that refused to endorse a candidate in order to preserve their political independence. Incredible naivete to simply accept the administration's call for "further research" at face value. No basic due diligence to get other views of this report. Hypocrisy.
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Trump has succeeded in forcing GOP to reverse on global trade. I would not put it past him to flip flop on taxes and further cement D as the party of neolberalism. Voters probably will not care that he is stealing the D agenda.
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Also per Freedom House:
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"Only"? Why should even one kid die from a preventable disease?
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May all prisoners be freed, and may children return to their families.
I too address the world's great powers by repeating the ever-present call 'never again war'," Pope Leo XIV said from the loggia of St Peter's Basilica.
📹: The Guardian
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Every quote and clip I have seen says just "sufferings of the Ukrainian people". This guy speaks truth.
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Is he saying JD Vance is the devil?