Posts Tagged ‘polarization’

Stop Feeding The Polarization Beast

Stop Feeding The Polarization Beast Authored by Alison Dagnes via RealClear Wire, A new academic year has begun, as is evident from the smell of Xeroxed paper in the hallways and the excitement of college freshmen who are new to our classrooms. These first weeks are glorious: students are cheerful and optimistic, believing that this […]

Just Who Caused this Polarization?

There’s been much talk in the Mainstream Media recently about how democracy is under threat from the increasing “Polarization” of society. This Polarization – so the story goes – is caused by Social Media, which creates “bubbles” of largely anonymous individuals who share the same opinions. Isolated in their virtual echo chambers, they have lost […]

Political polarization is pushing evangelicals to a historic breaking point

Christians are splitting with the religious right over Trump, COVID and Black Lives Matter, creating opportunities for those interested in social justice. Source

Increasing Polarization is Harming India’s Economic Prospects

In a recent interview with the Press Trust of India (PTI) published on May 25, former advisor to the Government of India has given a timely warning against the increasing polarization in India’s society. Prof. Kaushik Basu, who  also served as chief economist at the World Bank, stated, “The rise in divisiveness and polarization in […]

The Jan. 6 insurrection showed us the limits of polarization

Image Credit: Brown University For the first time, the United States has been classified as a “backsliding democracy” in a global assessment of democratic societies by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an intergovernmental research group. One key reason the report cites is the continuing popularity among Republicans of false allegations of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. But according […]

Scholar says it’s not clear Biden can overcome polarization soon

TEHRAN – An American academic says she is not sure Biden can deal with the polarization in the U.S. which has resulted from Donald Trump’s policies.  “It is not clear that President Biden can overcome the polarization any time soon, though the American people very much hope for that,” Elizabeth Sanders tells the Tehran Times. […]

Financial Polarization and Corruption: Obama’s Politics of Deception

  Michael Hudson Global Research October 10, 2011 The seeds for President Obama’s demagogic press conference on Thursday were planted last summer when he assigned his right-wing Committee of 13 the role of resolving the obvious and inevitable Congressional budget standoff by forging an anti-labor policy that cuts Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and uses […]

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