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A Journal of Ideas

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By Mark Schmitt
| Democracy Journal Verified
Because I live and drive in the District of Columbia, my license plate bears the motto “Taxation without representation.” (Since 2017, the motto has acquired a verb, so it is now a demand: “End taxation without representation.”) That familiar phrase, attributed to James Otis during the conflict over the Sugar Act in 1764, not only misquotes Otis, as Vanessa Williamson observes in her new book The Price of Democracy, but also oversimplifies the relationship between taxation and democratic...
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Civic Trust Under Threat in Trump’s Washington

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By Mark Schmitt
| New America
On a recent muggy Wednesday morning, I reported to Superior Court in the District of Columbia for jury duty. The court was quiet, and after the welcome video ran six times, a clerk announced that it was likely we would all be excused since they weren’t sure any judges would need a jury that day. But minutes later, 44 of us were called to a courtroom, and within a few hours, I was selected for a jury, where I spent most of the next few days.
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Think Tanks in an Authoritarian Moment

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By Mark Schmitt
| Democracy Journal Verified
We’re learning a lot about how government can shape our lives by watching the second Trump Administration dismantle it. One lesson is that government’s capacity to do good runs on information no less than on funding and regulations. From weather and economic forecasts to the census to predictions of other countries’ military capabilities to vaccine monitoring, data and ideas generated inside and outside of the federal government have guided decisions in a world of profound complexity.
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