Damek.

I love stuff like this.
Americans are profound innovators, second to none in examining old things with new eyes… except when it comes to their political system. The Constitution has been subject only to a few minor tweaks in the last two hundred years– some of them of large import, but none changing the basic system. [...]

MacRumors has shut down most of their site in favor of a light-weight design for special coverage of today’s opening of the June 2004 WWDC Expo. If they didn’t do this, the site would be shut down anyway by the hordes of people who will be constantly loading and reloading the site all day [...]

While a previous article I linked to basically made the argument that Republicans have worked harder than Democrats for the past few decades to make politics here in the US more divisive than ever, the corollary holds as well: the Democrats have not done enough work to hang on to the populist power they once [...]

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I just found this article via another Daily Kos visitor’s diary:
It is a cliché to observe that the parties have drawn further apart, the center no longer holds, and partisans on both sides have withdrawn further into mutual loathing and ever more-homogenous and antagonistic groupings. Where the analysis goes wrong is in its assumption, either [...]