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Joe Biden Called Ella Baker “A Giant of the Civil Rights Movement.” Here’s Why Her Philosophy Matters Now.
Oct 30 2020
by Patricia S. Parker, author of Ella Baker’s Catalytic Leadership: A Primer on Community Engagement and Communication for Social JusticeWhen former Vice-President Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination as President of the United States in August, he began his remarks with a refere
Lost in a Gallup: Revisiting the final hours of the 2016 campaign
Oct 19 2020
This excerpt from Lost in Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections revisits the many confident expressions about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s candidacy in the final days and hours before the 2016 general election. A close outcome seemed possible, but her defeat was implausible. Clinton won
An Obstetrical Las Vegas: What Colorado’s 1967 Abortion Law Tells us About 2020 America
Oct 15 2020
By Jennifer L. Holland, author of Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion MovementThe 2020 edition of American politics is showing once again the power of a politized conservative minority —for whom legal abortion trumps all other issues. For these conservatives, abortion is murder, and
When noted journalists bashed political polls as nothing more than ‘a fragmentary snapshot’ of a moment in time
Oct 07 2020
by W. Joseph Campbell, author of Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential ElectionsThis post was originally featured in The Conversation, and has been reblogged with permission.Poll-bashing – the aggressive, even extreme lambasting of pollsters and their work – used to be b
Demagogues & Democracy: An Ancient Comedy for Modern Times
Oct 05 2020
by Robert C. Bartlett, author of Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy, New Translations of the Acharnians and the KnightsIt’s fair to say that ours are troubled times, with deep economic division, racial strife, and even a plag
What It’s Like to be a Black Republican in 2020
Sep 24 2020
by Corey D. Fields, author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American RepublicansThe 2020 Republican National Convention featured a diverse line-up of speakers, including many Black speakers who trumpeted the Republican Party and its presidential nominee Donald T