that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game
the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it
A data point to remember re: “popularism” is that the popular position on what is happening in Iran and happened in Venezuela is “no war, this is insane, full stop” and the moderate elected officials we are supposed to like are saying contorted, legalistic, unpopular word salad instead of that.
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.
"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"
Congress could turn the Supreme Court building into a Museum of Democracy
Los Angeles’ housing crisis is self-inflicted.
For decades, city leaders have taken deliberate actions to limit new housing.
Today, we announced our plan to fix this and triple housing production.
🚨Replication alert🚨
I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER.
I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems.
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Our paper is out in PNAS.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
this is just open and abject corruption, but the way U.S. journalism frames it you'd not really understand that there's anything untoward
