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What if the People Governed? Lessons from Chile, Paris and California
youtube.comAccording to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more

Erin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024)
youtube.com"Why Elections Are Bad For Democracy"
youtube.comBy 2028, Millennials and Gen Z will combine to become the largest voting age population in the nation. Even with that massive generational shakeup looming, there remains precious little research and in-depth analysis on how younger Americans think about politics and society.
Peter Hamby • Out with The Olds!
On affordable housing
% Derisible • Theses for 2020
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
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