2023 Alliance for Securing Democracy policy paper by David Levine and Krystyna Sikora examines recent administration errors in elections in Michigan, Texas, and Arizona counties, and offers recommendations aimed at reducing errors and mitigating their impacts in future elections.
In The Atlantic, Lora Kelley digs into the complicated reality of what role nominees for vice president have in determining election outcomes. This, plus polling about J.D. Vance, gives me optimism about Kamala Harris’s campaign, and I have some thoughts on Senator Mark Kelly’s credibility on a unique set of important issues.
Canadian news media engagement is down, less news is being consumed, and many Canadians do not even realize the shift has occurred. MEO’s Information Ecosystem Brief, “Old News, New Reality: A Year of Meta’s News Ban in Canada”, looks at what happened when Meta banned news for users in Canada.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to end the war in exchange for the hostages, because he expects that if he does, his coalition will collapse, since the ultranationalist flank on which it depends wants the war to go on.” Hamas is okay with that, too—because it hurts Israel.
On the U.S. Supreme Court majority’s policy choices in Trump v. United States and Trump v. Anderson: “They’re not textual, they should not be constitutional, and they contradict the wiser judgment of the founders in key ways.”