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Immigration News Today: Trump Pauses Visa Appointments Worldwide

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Trump, Kennedy, and the Monkey’s Paw

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$40 Trillion National Debt & Future of Failed Supply-Side Economics

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The Killer Robots Have Arrived

Voice of the People

Tiffany Rebelmouse
By Tiffany RebelmouseJun 04, 2019
Tiffany Rebelmouse
Tiffany Rebelmouse is a contributor for The Fulcrum, a nonpartisan publication dedicated to strengthening democracy by fostering informed civic engagement and elevating diverse perspectives.
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Voice of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization that seeks to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving 'We the People' a greater role in government. VOP furthers the use of innovative methods and technology to give the American people a more effective voice in the policymaking process. VOP is working to urge Congress to take these new methods to scale so that Members of Congress have a large, scientifically-selected, representative sample of their constituents —called a Citizen Cabinet—to be consulted on current issues and providing a voice that accurately reflects the values and priorities of their district or state.


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Failed Supply-Side Economics Needs Immigrants as Scapegoats

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Independents Could Decide the Nov. 3 Election Amid Rising Discontent

The Tue., Nov. 3 midterm election is about six weeks away. According to recent research, 27% of U.S. adults identify as Democrats, 27% as Republicans, and 1% as members of a third party. This leaves a massive 45% of Americans who identify as political independents.

An analysis of self-identified independents, whether conducted by Gallup or the Pew Research Center, finds that about 47% lean toward the Democratic platform, 42% favor GOP policies, and 10% are “truly” independent.

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Partisan Loyalty Now Drives Americans’ Trust in Justice

Americans have rarely trusted their institutions less. In June, Gallup found average confidence in the 14 institutions it tracks was near a record low. Some 9% of the public trusted Congress, 27% trusted the Supreme Court, and 45% trusted the police. The criminal justice system, as a whole, ranked near the bottom.

Below those totals, however, lies a more telling story of divergence. Trust increasingly depends not on how an institution behaves, but on whether your side happens to run it. Republicans and Democrats each only have even a modest degree of confidence in Congress when their party is in control.

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The Leverage Ethic and the Spirit of Tripartisanship

I made the immodest proposal in my edited interdisciplinary volume Leveraging: A Political, Economic, and Societal Framework that the contemporary analogue to what Max Weber called the "Protestant Work Ethic" in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism was what I called "the Leverage Ethic."

Moreover, I suggested that the Leverage Ethic has more or less replaced what the late Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell called the "Consumer Ethic" in his classic book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, which he argued more or less replaced the Protestant Work Ethic.

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Trump is on the wrong side of AI issue

I’ve covered a lot of elections — and most times, the issues that are going to really matter to voters aren’t brand new or sprung on them with just two months to go, arriving out of nowhere. They’re predictable — the economy, a war, a long-contentious policy fight.

This year is different. While most voters tell us their biggest concern is affordability, a new issue has entered the chat, taking up an outsized amount of space on the campaign trail, on the airwaves, and in party war rooms.

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