The Degradation of Our Public Discourse is Destroying the U.S.

The Degradation of Our Public Discourse is Destroying the U.S.. A ... degraded public discourse has done to us, and is still doing to us.

Understanding democratic decline in the United States

The effort by Trump to subvert the 2020 election is the most obvious, but far from the only, example of democratic decline in the U.S..

Should we be worried about rising heat of political discourse? Yes.

Overlapping orange speech bubbles. Illustration by Matt Harrison Clough/Ikon Images. Christina Pazzanese. Harvard Staff Writer. October 30, 2023 ...

Our Nonsensical Voices of 'Democracy' | Lincoln Institute

One of the most annoying things in our impoverished public discourse—which frankly has been degraded by all sides—are the howls from liberals about ...

Disinformation Is Tearing America Apart | TIME

Trump, had won the presidential election but had been robbed of his victory through fraud.1 In fact, sixty-one courts and Trump's own Justice ...

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we now inhabit.

Americans Just Voted to Burn It All to the Ground

We witnessed the chaos of his administration, which he ran on an engine of personal grievances. We lived through the degradation of public ...

Is US democracy heading toward a dead end? - Global Times

... US democracy is real" in his recent speech in Philadelphia - and they rightly recognize the consequence of this dangerous degradation, as ...

The Fate of American Democracy Depends on Free Speech

In response to our democratic crisis—polarization, contested elections, political violence—philanthropists, activists, and civic leaders have set about ...

The Degradation of American Democracy — And the Court

Trump by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash · The Degradation of Civic Charity by Thomas B. Griffith · Demands for a Democratic Political Economy by ...

What Happens When Democracies Become Perniciously Polarized?

Persistent Polarization Without Democratic Degradation. This survey also yielded a group (see table 3) of countries that have experienced ...

Opinion | America Has a Free Speech Problem - The New York Times

The poll found that 84 percent of adults said it is a “very serious” or “somewhat serious” problem that some Americans do not speak freely in everyday ...

Americans and 'Cancel Culture': Where Some See Calls for ...

Overall, 58% of U.S. adults say in general, calling out others on social media is more likely to hold people accountable, while 38% say it is ...

A Coalition of the Sensible: What's Wrong with “The New Right”

No amount of friend–enemy Manichaeism or state-of-emergency governance will transform American pluralism into moral unity. Riot police clashed ...

Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and ...

... political violence may be necessary to effectuate their authoritarian blueprint if Americans resist. ... degrade democracy and promote radical ...

The Degradation of Civic Charity | Harvard Law Review

Borrowing from Judge Rogers, I begin in like fashion my response to Professor Klarman's diagnosis that American democracy is in a degraded state. Just to be ...

Is Social Media the Scourge of Democracy, or Is It Us? - Cato Institute

Are the social media destroying our democracy, our discourse, our mental health, and America itself? We have all heard the arguments ...

Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy

Of the twenty-six countries that degraded, twenty-three descended fully into authoritarianism. Of the minority of cases that did not degrade, ...

U.S. Public Views on Climate and Energy | Pew Research Center

Majorities of Americans say the federal government is doing too little for key aspects of the environment, from protecting water or air ...

Destroying trust in the media, science, and government has left ...

... degrade Americans' trust and its collision with COVID-19. It is easy to think these are just examples of Trump's unorthodox political style.