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People don’t care about democracy in the abstract. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Politics , Society

Simplified: People do not care about democracy in the abstract.

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4 months ago
Elon Musk’s Doge team did at the Treasury Department, taking over their computers. 0.900

👤 Ralph Ranalli 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Politics , Technology

Simplified: Elon Musk's Doge team took over the Treasury Department's computers.

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4 months ago
Build support for a test court case to overturn the legality of super PACs, which are allowed to raise unlimited amounts of money from corporations, unions, associations, and individuals, and spend un... 0.800

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Policycast 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: Build support for a test court case to overturn the legality of super PACs

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4 months ago
Also define the mechanisms of monitoring, internal and public reporting, and accountability. 0.800

👤 Archon Fung 📋 Policycast 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: Define mechanisms of monitoring internal and public reporting and accountability

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4 months ago
The corrupting influence of money inside of our political system has been a fight for 18 years. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Finance

Simplified: The corrupting influence of money inside of political system has been a fight for 18 years

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4 months ago
Experiment with alternative campaign funding mechanisms, such as a voucher program that would give individuals public money that they could pledge to political candidates. 0.800

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Policycast 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: Experiment with alternative campaign funding mechanisms

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4 months ago
As case studies, they used 1,800 policy proposals over 30 years, tracking how they made their way through the political system and whose interests were served by the outcomes. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Policycast 🏷️ Politics , Research

Simplified: They used 1800 policy proposals over 30 years as case studies

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4 months ago
Ten years ago, political scientists Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin Page of Northwestern University took an extraordinary data set and a small army of researchers and set out to det... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Policycast 🏷️ Politics , Research

Simplified: Political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page took a data set and researchers to determine if America could still be called a democracy ten yea...

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4 months ago
Clarify and regularize Elon Musk’s public role and that of the DOGE team and define the ways in which they must follow the security, conflict of interest, and accountability provisions of regular gove... 0.800

👤 Archon Fung 📋 Policycast 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: Clarify and regularize Elon Musk's public role and that of the DOGE team

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4 months ago
Professors Archon Fung of HKS and Lawrence Lessig of Harvard Law School say Trump’s brazen embrace of billionaire ruling partners could be an inflection point in America’s long slide toward rule by th... 0.900

👤 Archon Fung and Lawrence Lessig 📋 Policycast 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: Archon Fung and Lawrence Lessig say Trump's embrace of billionaire partners could be an inflection point in America's slide toward rule by the wealthi...

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4 months ago
The new president put tech billionaire supporters including Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg front and center at his inauguration and has given Musk previously unimaginable power to dismantle and... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Policycast 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: The new president put tech billionaire supporters including Musk Bezos and Zuckerberg front and center at his inauguration

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4 months ago
Political outcomes overwhelmingly favored very wealthy people, corporations, and business groups. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Policycast 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: Political outcomes favored wealthy people corporations and business groups

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4 months ago
The influence of ordinary citizens, meanwhile, was at a “non-significant, near-zero level.” 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Policycast 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: The influence of ordinary citizens was at a non-significant near-zero level

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4 months ago
In Washington, a grand jury refused to return a felony indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer during a crackdown ordered by President Trump. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Legal , Politics

Simplified: In Washington grand jury refused to return felony indictment against man who threw sandwich at officer during crackdown ordered by President Trump

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4 months ago
Another federal grand jury in Virginia declined at least one charge against James Comey, the former F.B.I. director; the prosecutor later improperly filed a version of the indictment the full grand ju... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Legal , Politics

Simplified: Another federal grand jury in Virginia declined at least one charge against James Comey

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4 months ago
This week, a grand jury rejected an effort by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington to indict the six members of Congress who appeared last year in a video underscoring the obligation of service me... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Legal , Politics

Simplified: This week grand jury rejected effort to indict six members of Congress

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4 months ago
Federal grand juries in Virginia twice decided not to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, after a judge dismissed an initial case against her. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Opinion 🏷️ Legal , Politics

Simplified: Federal grand juries in Virginia twice decided not to indict Letitia James

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4 months ago
If we do see a Labour leadership election next year, then a crucial question will be whether any candidate can actually put forward a vision, a programme and a strategy that are equal to the task of b... 0.700

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: If a Labour leadership election happens next year a crucial question will be whether any candidate can put forward a vision a programme and a strategy...

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4 months ago
It could be Zack Polanski, it could be Angela Rayner, it could be Andy Burnham, it could be Zarah Sultana. 0.600

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: It could be Zack Polanski Angela Rayner Andy Burnham Zarah Sultana

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4 months ago
If they can’t, then the prospects for the immediate future are grim. 0.700

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: If they cannot the prospects for the immediate future are grim

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4 months ago