Combatting Voter Suppression
July 9, 2020
Richard L. Hasen— The media often frame the voting wars as a stalemate between claims of voter fraud and voter suppression, but it is time to declare the battle over…. READ MORE
Tag: presidential elections
What Story Do Americans Want to Hear?
June 15, 2020
Rogers M. Smith— Political figures on all sides decry “fake news” today. But politics has always been driven more by stories than facts. As different as they are in all… READ MORE
Selecting the Next President: Majority Rule and the Electoral College
October 28, 2019
George C. Edwards III— Can the intentions of the framers justify the violation of majority rule in the twenty-first century? Most of the motivations behind the creation of the electoral… READ MORE
Why 2018 is Likely to be a Historic Midterm
June 20, 2018
Alan I. Abramowitz— On the night of June 5, while most of the nation’s attention was focused on the results of California’s crucial “top two” primary, something unusual happened in… READ MORE
What Washington Gets Wrong
January 4, 2017
Benjamin Ginsberg— At a Washington dinner party, I happened to mention to the woman seated to my right, an executive of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency responsible for… READ MORE
What I Want to Hear from Our Next President on Trade
October 28, 2016
Kati Suominen— In 2010, Gary Hufbauer and I published Globalization at Risk, our fierce defense of the open trading system that, many feared, would be reversed amid the economic angst… READ MORE
The Economic Implications of Citizenship
October 17, 2016
Andreas Fahrmeir— U.S. citizenship has emerged as an issue several times during this year’s presidential campaign. There were debates on whether birthright citizenship is (and should be) protected by the… READ MORE
Words and Politics: Lessons from Nuremberg
March 30, 2016
Joel E. Dimsdale— Seventy years ago the international military tribunal at Nuremberg sentenced Julius Streicher to death for incitement of violence. It was one of the court’s most controversial judgments…. READ MORE
Presidential Politics and the Symbolic Soldier
March 23, 2016
Jonathan H. Ebel— “I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people.” —Donald J. Trump Every four years, presidential… READ MORE
Why Income Inequality Matters
March 9, 2016
Matthew Drennan— In the presidential campaign of 2012 there was hardly a mention of income inequality. This time is different. Even the Republican candidates say that it is a problem…. READ MORE
Between Memory and History