Events for April 7, 2026

Here are links to the information that was covered and/or referenced. We started with a half-hour talk by Ezra Klein (originally recorded before last November’s election): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism-elections-crick.html We then moved to the state of democracy in the U.S. As I then mentioned, there are three organizations that rate the state of democracy in countries around…