Brendan Nyhan

Month: May 2019

  • New Medium: Don’t normalize election challenges

    From my new column at Medium: The greatest danger of Donald Trump’s presidency is that seemingly abnormal things become seen as normal. After more than 10,000 false or misleading claims, even the president’s outrageous assertions that Democrats support the murder of live infants barely seem newsworthy. What’s even worse, however, is that other political actors

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  • New Bright Line Watch report on US democracy

    From our new report: Prior to the release of the Mueller report and subsequent escalation of conflict between the executive and legislative branches, Bright Line Watch conducted a new wave of surveys on the quality of democracy in the United States. From March 12–21, 2019, we fielded our eighth survey of academic experts and sixth

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