It’s Time to Rethink America’s Presidential Debates
The Democratic Party primary is effectively over. Now that Joe Biden has secured the nomination on the first ballot of
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American politics
Why Voters Should Care About a President’s Emotional Intelligence
BY JOHN SCIANIMANICO In their first debates on June 26 and 27, twenty candidates made the case for why they
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The evolution of political internet memes
BY OFRA KLEIN In 2000, during a presidential debate, then-candidate George W. Bush mispronounced the internet as “internets.” Four years
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Why I Flew Across the Country to Cast My Vote for Hillary Clinton
BY AROHI SHARMA At 5:52 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, November 3, I put down the phone with the Los
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Two Stories, One America: How Political Narratives Shape Our Understanding of Reality
BY STEPHEN HAWKINS AND TOMMY FLINT It’s a troubling day when we have to admit that the TV pundits are right: America
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Presumptions, Prerogatives, and Power: Why Foreign Policy is Too Easy for Presidents, and Domestic Policy is Too Hard
BY JACOB SHELLY When President Obama stood outside the Blue Room on September 10th to announce a major expansion of
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The Rise of a Narrative: Thomas Piketty at the Kennedy School
BY JOSH RUDOLPH The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are
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