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Kareem Carr • Tweet

Brock has cultivated an impressive body of liberal megadonors and assembled an eclectic collection of no fewer than thirty smear-related projects, most notably his flagship “media watchdog,” Media Matters. This collection of groups was cited to me by nearly every Democrat and Republican operative I interviewed as the most ubiquitous and successful

Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

roughly half of the population over its lifetime and an average of 11,000 unique daily visitors.

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

If the altered demographic profile of the two parties in the 2016 election—almost perfectly replicated in the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections—is signaling America’s newest political realignment, it would be the first since the Nixon-Reagan elections of 1968 to 1980, roughly forty to fifty years earlier. By Walter Dean Burnham’s count (as we saw in C

Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

More than one in four Americans is now a None, according to data from Pew Research, the General Social Survey, and other researchers.

Bob Smietana • Reorganized Religion

Many Americans today worry that our nation is losing its national identity. Yet the core of that identity is not the whiteness of our skin or our religion or our ethnicity. It is the ideals we share, the good we hold in common. Robert Reich, 10/20/23 https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-final-word-about-the-common-good

The cold divisive logic of the RCO impoverishes us, all of us, and brings us closer to that primitive state that the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes called “the war of every man against every man.”

Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2009): Corporate Applications for Prediction Markets | The Journal of Prediction Markets

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In our survey, they are 76 percent Black, 15 percent Hispanic, 5 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, and 4 percent other. They are 68 percent male and 32 percent female. Their average age at the time of this study was 52 years old (1971 birth year) and on average they dechurched twenty-five years ago (1998).