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Can we have some actual democracy, please?
Something is seriously screwed up in the way Americans vote for their presidential nominees. Whether it’s because this campaign is a tight race for the first time in a while or something else, the...
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Can we have some democracy, revisited
I recently wrote a plea to scrap the absurd, undemocratic primary process we’ve seen this year. The New Republic has an editorial in the current issue calling for the same, with the added bonus of...
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Political journalism’s policy ignorance
I’ve been meaning for a while to write a post about the pointlessness of the “Is the media finally getting tough on Barack Obama” meme. The gist would have been that the media’s “getting tough” on...
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Ignorant political journalism in full effect
In light of this post, it seems appropriate to mention that Wednesday’s Democratic debate turned out to be the apotheosis of mindless, ignorant political journalism. I only caught the last 45 minutes,...
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