National Guard members stage in Washington Monday, amid heightened threats of violence.
Facing questions and critiques from its members, the American Political Science Association on Monday released an updated statement on last week s attack of the Capitol. The statement apologizes for a previous APSA statement saying that public officials on “both sides” of the political divide need to do better. It also acknowledges the racial dynamics at play Wednesday and in Trumpism more broadly.
“No tolerance should be given to the insurrectionists and the hatred and lies that motivate them,” says APSA’s new take, which is signed by Steven Rathgeb Smith, executive director, and the group’s three presidents, past, current and elect.
Informal waste management in Lagos is big business: policies need to support the trade
By Chidi Nzeadibe & Chinedu Onyishi & Christian Ezeibe Ph.D & Gerald Ezirim & Peter Mbah - The Conversation
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The megacity of Lagos has an estimated population of 24 million . And it s constantly growing, putting additional strain on a city that already has serious challenges. They include heavy traffic congestion, flooding, air pollution and solid waste generation.
The waste economy in Lagos is huge. It is well connected with the domestic formal economy and has also established links into trans-border trade with neighbouring and distant countries.
Pro-Trump extremists storm the Capitol building in Washington Wednesday.
“It s watching one of those terrible historical moments in real time.”
That’s how political historian Julian E. Zelizer, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, described his reaction to Wednesday’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
But was Zelizer surprised?
“At one level, it’s just horrible to watch our democracy be in this place,” he said as the 6 p.m. curfew approached and pro-Trump extremists began to disperse amid a growing police presence. “At another level, it s hard not to see how this is the culmination of what has been happening in the last four years in fact in the last four decades,” since the rise of what Zelizer has called the new Republican Party.
Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News, where he is frequently heard as a news analyst and writes regularly for NPR.org.
It Took Decades for America to Become This Divided [Governing]
Jan. 5 The outcome in Tuesday’s Senate runoffs in Georgia may end up being close, but voting among various subgroups won’t be. As was the case in November, there will be stark splits along racial, gender and geographic lines. College-educated residents of Atlanta and its major suburbs will vote in clear contrast to the results in rural areas.
By now, this is such a familiar scenario that it almost doesn’t seem worth commenting on. But these divides and the way they add up to near-even splits in some states and at the national level are the main driving forces of contemporary politics.