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Back in the run-up to the 2020 election, a group of political scientists ran down the most recent data on public support for democracy and…
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On Christmas Eve, John Klasen drove his truck onto the ice of northern Minnesota’s Lake Bemidji with his longtime partner Marcy Binkley. The pair were…
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Hey, do you like bad news? Then you’re gonna love today’s newsletter. Back in 2018, some political scientists noted a troubling finding: somewhere…
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Right now we're somewhere between pandemic and endemic, and it feels pretty weird
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Here at The Why Axis we’re ringing in the new year with this thoroughly depressing new poll finding: roughly one third of Americans now say that…
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Drop was much steeper here than in other rich nations
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Life expectancy in the state peaked the year he was elected to the Senate, and has been falling ever since
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Believe it or not there is data on this
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New estimates on partisan support for political violence
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Lessons from the 202nd retracted Covid paper
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Teachers scrounge dollar bills for school supplies to entertain a crowd
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When the tides rise, a lot of smaller ships get smashed on the rocks
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