Summary
Looming before us is a first-ever U.S. debt default, higher interest rates for all of us and a plunge back into deep recession. Current polls show that most Americans favor an agreement to raise the debt ceiling, cut spending across the budget and close some tax loopholes, but our leaders have been unable to achieve common- sense compromise.
Why can't the president and congressional leaders of both parties do what most of us want? There are two underlying reasons: safe congressional districts and a media landscape of choose-your-team partisan news programming.See the full content of this document
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Not Enough Citizenship
In Virginia, we've just seen the folly of a redistricting process driven mainly by Republican and Democratic horse trading. Current office-holders do what's natural; they negotiate to have their ow...
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