American Government

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Should the U.S. Copyright Office Have a Political Agenda?

Kate Harveston October 15, 2018

Not being tied to political and election cycles has helped keep the U.S. Register of Copyrights an...

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Does US Government Have an Overgrowth of Ivy?

Andrew Donaldson July 15, 2018

If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, all nine Justices of SCOTUS will be Ivy...

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How Bad Can Trump’s Victory Get?

Saul DeGraw November 22, 2016

A mediation upon history and the cultural impact of Donald Trump's electoral victory.

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Two Sentences

James Hanley October 10, 2014

First is a sentence from a best-selling American Government text, introducing the concept of congressional oversight of...

U.S. Presidency–Snow Day!

James Hanley February 18, 2014

Snow Day!

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Increased Health Insurance Competition Doesn’t Do What You Think It Does

Tod Kelly July 7, 2012

As a principled pragmatic, I often reject the ‘Right vs. Left’ or ‘Tyranny vs. Freedom’ debates that...

LeeEsq on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeThe cheating tools were a lot more primitive when I was in school but listening to tales of cheating…
Jaybird in reply to Michael Cain on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeHuh. You'd think that that'd be appealing. "Staff recommends you do the thing that I talked about in…
Michael Cain in reply to Jaybird on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeThe last part of my interview for a job with the Colorado legislature's joint budget committee was t…
CJColucci on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeLee said he doesn’t know a single student at the school who isn’t using AI to cheat. Birds of a feat…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025The Daily Princetonian reports: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions o…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025First term it was a "blink and you'll miss it" thing, but yes it was on the RoR. I can't google up a…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"Testing or measuring procedures cannot be determinative in employment decisions unless they have so…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025I am not remembering this from the first Trump administration at all. I suppose it has to do somethi…
Dark Matter in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025they’re not even offering the second [a negotiated deal] If the Palestinians were to offer to match…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Palestinian leadership should negotiate with the Israeli government rather than go on quixotic quest…