[Subscription Required] Speaking at the Berlin Wall in June 1987, President Ronald Reagan famously urged his Soviet counterpart, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
The San Ramon Valley Democratic Club welcomes Professor William Howell of University of Chicago and Professor Terry Moe of Stanford University discuss their book, Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy. The dilemma: is Polarization—Populists feel left out. The question is how to bring them “back into the fold.”
I had a long drive Saturday evening which allowed me to listen to the Harris and Biden speeches. Two lines summed up where we may be heading for the next four years.
After 2016, “a healthy media might have learned from its mistakes, engaged in soul-searching and tried to gain some insights into the working-class coalition that Trump had assembled,” but instead, this year they touted polls that were no more accurate, sighs Reason’s Robby Soave.
This section documents the myriad abuses that the Chinese Communist Party commits against its own people in violation of its commitments under the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Elections are really complex accounting practices. It’s not just a final vote count that is fraught and difficult. Citizens going to the polls must consciously make multiple personal calculations: Will taxes rise? How much should individuals pay for healthcare? Must we spend heavily on defense?
