It is up to all of us to be honest and clear eyed about what it means...
democracy
Wonder what the defeated candidate thinks about?
Symposium: The Sanders’ candidacy (and hopefully, eventual presidency) is an important step re-situating the Democratic Party as...
A primer on the Indian presidential election, Indian politics, and Indian history.
Much ink has been spilt since Donald Trump's election regarding the legitimacy of the U.S. government system,...
"November 8, 2016, 4pm. My boss swings by my desk. She's smiling, putting her coat on, talking...
An intellectual experiment. Let's play the role of electoral fraudster. Come, and conspire for a moment, and...
Public opinion is a wonderful regulator of governments, but only when circumscribed by well-constructed institutions.
Americans constantly re-elect a congress they despise, and they hold other contradictory views too. We are still...
Because of neglect of the role of the broader role of citizenship, Americans can blame themselves for...
This week! Religion, Nature, Democracy, Education, Sex, and Freedom!
This week! Europe, Crime, Democracy, Government, and Education!
I suspect that my off-off-year ballot is different from most of yours in more ways than one.
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This one is going to be a squeaker.
One California to govern them all,
"So you get angry at being portrayed as a caricature, and your notion of dispelling that image...
A recently released study by Princeton and Northwestern claims that Democracy, for all intents and purposes, no...
Félicitations, nos amis. C’est la triomphe de la liberté, égalité, et l’amour. Célébrer et soyez joyeux!
As my isolation from the chattering classes continues, I’m inclined to go into hypotheticals and counter-factuals. One...
