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The Case For Multiparty Democracy
via New America
Excerpt adapted from Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America by Lee Drutman.
Today, American parties are more united internally around competing visions of national identity than any time since the Civil War. This division defines national partisan conflict and communicates to voters what is important. And because it is binary, it communicates only two, irreconcilable options. Voting means endorsing one of these visions, either implicitly or explicitly. A vote with reservations counts the same as a vote without reservations. An enthusiastic vote for Trump's anti-immigration policies counts the same as a hesitant vote against Clinton.
A multiparty system in America would not collapse such thinking into reductionist binary generalizations. It would offer more options across the spectrum and give voters more ability to see nuance and shades of gray. A ranked-choice voting system, where voters could order their preferences, would add even more precision and nuance to elections.
Posted on January 24, 2020
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The Case For Multiparty Democracy
via New America
If voters learn what politics should be about through electoral campaigns, multiparty and two-party democracy communicate different messages. Multiparty democracy communicates that democracy is about building coalitions and alliances. Two-party democracy communicates that democracy is about the true majority triumphing.Posted on January 24, 2020
The Fall Of 1987
By Doug E. Doug
A dope novel.Posted on January 14, 2020
How To Blow The Whistle
By Boing Boing
"If you need to avoid leaving a metadata trail about your interest in this topic, make sure to buy at a physical bookstore and pay with cash."Posted on January 10, 2020
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases Of The Civil Right Era
By The National Press Club
Known as "the South's Simon Wiesenthal," Jerry Mitchell received a genius grant in 2009 and still works as an investigative reporter for the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger.Posted on January 8, 2020
Wikipedia's Gender Problem
By Kirsten Menger-Anderson/Undark
I tallied how often women were cited in Wikipedia's top math and literature pages. The results weren't pretty.Posted on January 4, 2020
How The Russians Bugged Selectric Typewriters In The U.S. Embassy
By Boing Boing
Eric Haseltine's The Spy in Moscow Station tells of a time when - much like today - Russian spycraft had proven itself far beyond the best technology the U.S. had to offer. The perils of American arrogance mixed with bureaucratic infighting left the country unspeakably vulnerable to ultra-sophisticated Russian electronic surveillance and espionage.Posted on January 1, 2020
Welcome To Cli-Fi, The Literature Of Climate Change
By Adeline Johns-Putra/The Conversation
The phenomenon of cli-fi as a whole offers us different ways and a multitude of spaces in which to consider climate change and how we address it.Posted on December 17, 2019
Earth At Night
By NASA
The images reveal how human activity and natural phenomena light up the darkness around the world, depicting the intricate structure of cities, wildfires and volcanoes raging, auroras dancing across the polar skies, moonlight reflecting off snow and deserts, and other dramatic earthly scenes.Posted on December 11, 2019
Americans Still Wrong About Climate Change
By Bobby Duffy/The Conversation
Perhaps shitty media coverage has something to do with it.Posted on December 9, 2019
SIU Press Holiday Sale: Give The Gift Of Chicago, Illinois History, Rhetorics & Feminisms, Theater In The Americas, And Some Crab Orchard Poetry
By SIU Press
I love SIU Press.Posted on December 5, 2019
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