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No voter can master every issue, and few voters try. Any democratic system must cope with that. Referendums, instead, invite us to ignore the question, give the snake-oil peddlers an edge, concentrate our ignorance into a tightly focused beam, and hold nobody accountable for results. They magnify the vulnerabilities of our democracies and diminish their defences.

How Referendums Break Democracies

Fran Monks

Spotted in the clinic: “This scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity. That’s it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength, or love.” https://t.co/oGyPvFFn9Q

Tweets From Rebekah Fenton, MD, FAAP

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You, Me, and RFK

David Murray

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