A review of Kathryn Cramer Brownell’s “24/7 Politics: Cable Televisions & The Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News.”
CNN’s Trump town hall drew over 3 million viewers. Does the public need to change?
Why is Turning Point Action afraid of the media? Conventional political science wisdom says that the purpose of one national candidate stumping for a lesser known is to raise his profile to a broader audience.
When political candidates only seek out coverage from the news that compliments them or seek to avoid answering tough questions, it means they either have little respect for our democratic traditions or they are afraid that they cannot answer the challenging demands of office.
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
