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Ned Richardson-Little
HistoryNed
In East Germany, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. did not make the news until April 6. Here is the coverage from the SED national party organ Neues Deutschland.
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Milton Posner
miltonposner
THREAD: Why Massachusetts voters should approve ranked-choice voting, explained with Muppets Under RCV, voters rank as many candidates as they like in order of preference. If no candidate gets a
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Teri Kanefield
Teri_Kanefield
There may be a few who don't get it, but most do.In 2016, lots of Trump voters may not have understood what they are voting for—but not this time.Consider the
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Yeen Spirit
hyenagirl64
The ultimate refuge of a person whose ideas aren’t working is that the failing implementations of their ideas are invalid“This is not real capitalism”“China is not real socialism”And, the hardest
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Max Burns
themaxburns
Democrats' victory by largely mail-in ballot proves that Ben Franklin's idea of a national postal service was a banger in the 18th Century and it still slaps today. The free
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Heidi Li Feldman
HeidiLiFeldman
For the first time in 30 years of law teaching, today, I had to explain to my students our constitutional democracy is in such jeopardy we must be alert to
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Catrina Ko
dr_CatKo
THREADSome highlights (in the HK eyes) of @DaliaResearch CEO Nico Jaspers' presentation of the results of this year's Democracy Perception Index at #CDS2020:[n=124,000 (online-connected respondents from 53 countries][The n for
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Scott Santens 🧢🏄♂️
scottsantens
Don't let the cure be worse than the disease, says the guy who's actively seeking to throw out hundreds of thousands of ballots, including those from overseas by members of
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Sherrilyn Ifill
Sifill_LDF
With respect, this not the time for healing. We have not properly diagnosed the sickness or cleaned the wound. We have not begun to investigate why the illness it was
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Eliza Durbin
ElizaCLST6
#CLST6 #RR10 I do not think Athenian democracy was fair. Although it was a step in the right direction for citizen engagement in government, it excluded a large portion of
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aayeff
aayeff1
They knew all along that the TRPs were fraudulently fixed.TRP is not just about viewership. It determines the advertising income.Those who argue TRPs don't matter must explain why TRP existed
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Teri Kanefield
Teri_Kanefield
Here you have it. The greatest threat to democracy.Democracy is based on rule of law, which requires a shared truth (a functioning public sphere).Trump walked out of the 60 Minutes
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Matt Glassman
MattGlassman312
I really enjoyed the new @SuzanneMettler1 and @r_lieberman book, Four Threats. I highly recommend it, for the following reaons. 1/https://www.amazon.com/Four-Threats-Recurring-American-Democracy/dp/1250244420 First, it's not an anti-Tru
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Torsten Kathke
torstenkathke
The sad part is; she'll probably draw the conclusion that she was attacked for her very free and heroic speech and now that's she has weathered the storm will double
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SamuelGoldman
SWGoldman
My own view FTR is that the "paper" Constitution is better understood as an exercise in aristocratic republicanism than democracy. This was somewhat in tension with a more egalitarian spirit
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Taosci
taosci
IMO Morsi failed it was b/c a bunch of medieval antiquarians cdn't solve the problems of a modern economy, so Egypt plunged into an existential economic crisis as the wheat
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