To Save Democracy, Here’s a Playbook That Works
Poland pulled back from an authoritarian slide. What can the U.S. learn from its nonpartisan approach?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/poland-democracy-us.html?smid=em-share
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To Save Democracy, Here’s a Playbook That Works
Poland pulled back from an authoritarian slide. What can the U.S. learn from its nonpartisan approach?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/poland-democracy-us.html?smid=em-share
‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’
The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses the “parents’ revolution” on smartphones that his book “The Anxious Generation” has started.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jonathan-haidt.html?smid=em-share
Charges of antisemitism and liberal bias and dismay over cuts to the opera budget have led to a small mutiny at Chautauqua Institution. And this was after the attack on Salman Rushdie.
The rebel leader believed success was in hand: An autocrat deposed, tyranny on the run, one of America’s oldest cultural institutions rescued from disaster.
“We used classic guerrilla tactics,” said Twig Branch, the rebel leader, savoring his victory. He and a small band of allies had successfully ousted the president of Chautauqua Institution, a 151-year-old resort and cultural center that every summer attracts authors, musicians, playwrights and public intellectuals to its 750-acre lakeside campus in western New York. “We established a sophisticated spy network. We carefully designed a cellular network of provocateurs.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/28/maga-pushback-trump-resistance/
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/27/trump-executive-orders-deportations/
‘It Is Hard to Imagine a More Sweeping Agenda to Make Americans Less Healthy’
Trump says one thing about toxins and does another.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opinion/trump-toxins-cancer-environment.html?smid=em-share