The majority party in the US Congress always accuses the minority party of gridlock and obstruction. Bills fail to pass if the majority party can’t get everyone to vote with them and the minority party votes unanimously against something.
I looked at the votes for some of the historically significant bills in the past 60 years.…
Nature is one of the world’s most prestigious and widely-read scientific journals. It can be difficult to slog through research papers, so they also publish an interesting supplement called Nature Outlook. The articles are more in-depth, written in plain English, and are free to everyone. They do a great job of summarizing complicated and contentious issues.…
I was on one of these meandering trips around the internet, hopping from link to link and found this great story.
Often when people get into a vigorous debate of ideas, especially with those that disagree with them, it gets derailed by someone complaining about the “tone” of the debate or pleading for “civil discourse”.
As usual, Glenn Greenwald has a brilliant summation of this issue:
…“One other point about this fixation on the “tone” of our politics.