If voting booths are any indication, Turks are largely unfazed by their leader’s growing authoritarian streak. Despite months of anti-government protest, a graft scandal implicating Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and an uprising within a facti...
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If voting booths are any indication, Turks are largely unfazed by their leader’s growing authoritarian streak. Despite months of anti-government protest, a graft scandal implicating Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and an uprising within a facti...
Bill O’Reilly (by Justin Hoch) On election night, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly said, regarding the demographic shifts that helped President Obama win reelection, “It’s not a traditional America anymore.” O’Reilly went on to say that many...
Bill O’Reilly (by Justin Hoch) On election night, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly said, regarding the demographic shifts that helped President Obama win reelection, “It’s not a traditional America anymore.” O’Reilly went on to say that many...
Copyright © 2005 Alexandra Lee. Licensed under Creative Commons. When it comes to reproductive rights in this country, we dodged a bullet Tuesday. It’s bad enough that many states and their legislators will continue to press for increasingly restr...
Copyright © 2005 Alexandra Lee. Licensed under Creative Commons. When it comes to reproductive rights in this country, we dodged a bullet Tuesday. It’s bad enough that many states and their legislators will continue to press for increasingly restr...
Yes. With Election Day less than 12 hours away, I’m not going to try to change your vote through a seriously in-depth, highly-theory-based discourse on the purpose of government, the proper role of the state, and the numerous benefits of workin...
Yes. With Election Day less than 12 hours away, I’m not going to try to change your vote through a seriously in-depth, highly-theory-based discourse on the purpose of government, the proper role of the state, and the numerous benefits of workin...
I’m a political junkie, and even I’m sick of this campaign. If 2008 felt like we were watching history textbooks being written, 2012 has felt like an underground boxing match that’s gone the distance. Now we’re just waiting for the final bell...
I’m a political junkie, and even I’m sick of this campaign. If 2008 felt like we were watching history textbooks being written, 2012 has felt like an underground boxing match that’s gone the distance. Now we’re just waiting for the final bell...
As Election Day approaches, it’s easy to despair that we live in an era of unprecedented political polarization. But take heart: this is nothing new. As recounted in Ron Chernow’s biography of the first president, Benjamin Franklin Bache, publish...
As Election Day approaches, it’s easy to despair that we live in an era of unprecedented political polarization. But take heart: this is nothing new. As recounted in Ron Chernow’s biography of the first president, Benjamin Franklin Bache, publish...
Image obtained from Wikipedia. As is traditional in an election year, most of the normal legislative agenda has been suspended in favor of campaigns and partisan posturing. The GOP is largely running on the economy, which is sure to be a winning is...
Image obtained from Wikipedia. As is traditional in an election year, most of the normal legislative agenda has been suspended in favor of campaigns and partisan posturing. The GOP is largely running on the economy, which is sure to be a winning is...
Here’s some food for thought: How have Hope-Changers from 2008 dealt with Obama being “The Man”? Brown may be a liberal school, but do we truly love him…or hold a steady undercurrent of quiet resentment toward him? That’...
Here’s some food for thought: How have Hope-Changers from 2008 dealt with Obama being “The Man”? Brown may be a liberal school, but do we truly love him…or hold a steady undercurrent of quiet resentment toward him? That’...
Montana is not a battleground state, but it has become the latest battleground in campaign finance. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a Montana Supreme Court ruling and invalidated a Montana law that limited independent political spending by c...
Montana is not a battleground state, but it has become the latest battleground in campaign finance. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a Montana Supreme Court ruling and invalidated a Montana law that limited independent political spending by c...
With a greater chunk of non English-speaking voters headed to the polls in swing states next month than ever before in American electoral history, language has become a dealbreaker on the campaign trail. 2012 presents an array of challenges to the ta...
With a greater chunk of non English-speaking voters headed to the polls in swing states next month than ever before in American electoral history, language has become a dealbreaker on the campaign trail. 2012 presents an array of challenges to the ta...
No President since FDR has ever been reelected with an unemployment rate above 7.2%. Period. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in August that the unemployment rate is 8.1%, about where it has been since the beginning of the year. What ...
No President since FDR has ever been reelected with an unemployment rate above 7.2%. Period. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in August that the unemployment rate is 8.1%, about where it has been since the beginning of the year. What ...
The first thing you notice is the smell. As one of the few places that allows indoor smoking, Twin River Casino is infused with the odor of cigarettes. The casino, located in Lincoln, Rhode Island, was formerly a greyhound racetrack known as Lincoln ...
The first thing you notice is the smell. As one of the few places that allows indoor smoking, Twin River Casino is infused with the odor of cigarettes. The casino, located in Lincoln, Rhode Island, was formerly a greyhound racetrack known as Lincoln ...