By Richard Lee “It’s the economy, stupid,” the phrase that James Carville coined when he was a strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, has always been sound advice for those running for office. Voters tend to vote on pocketbook… Read More ›
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Notorious RBG: A reflection of her life on my own
By Allison Zhang When the story about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death broke, the conversation at the dinner table stiffened. My friend, whose mother works in the justice system, started to cry. The raw emotion that eclipsed her shoulders, paralyzed… Read More ›
The Catholic Church and the Pandemic
By Michael P. Riccards Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerith of tiny Luxembourg has argued that the COVID-19 epidemic could accelerate by 10 years the secularization of the West. For some reason, apparently this view is shared by other high members of the… Read More ›
Is it time to abolish the Electoral College?
By Amara Young In the 2016 presidential election, nearly 2.9 million more people voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, yet Trump still became president. Why? Because of Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, which established the Electoral College…. Read More ›
The journalism lessons of ‘Almost Famous’
By Richard Lee Almost Famous, which was released 20 years ago this month, is more than an entertaining tale of rock’n’roll as told through the lens of a character based on Cameron Crowe and the work he did as a… Read More ›
Should we put a cap on the age of presidential candidates?
By Michael P. Riccards I have always loved conventions, and I attended two of them. They are P.T. Barnum at his best, but in fact they have had an impact on this nation. At the convention of 1860, the Republicans… Read More ›
Looking Beyond the ‘Rage’ in Woodward’s New Book
By Michael P. Riccards Woodward’s new gossip history is an indictment of the president and that he is unfit for office. His last nine books have all presented the office in a bad light. He takes joy in America’s problems… Read More ›
Reinventing Newspapers, Over Coffee
By David Kassnoff I used to brew the coffee for the village board of Clyde, New York, a town that appears on very few maps. Remember maps? I worked for a small daily paper, the Finger Lakes Times, in Geneva,… Read More ›
Media, Resilience and COVID-19
By William Elenchin Introduction Journalism in its many forms plays an immensely vital role in our society. Media has increasingly become part of our daily lives in ways that would be unimaginable, even by one generation past. We can now… Read More ›
Commercialism has consumed the soul of sports
By Paul Wieland St. Bonaventure has joined dozens of universities in the United States offering major fields of study in sports, either through business schools or communications studies programs. St. Bonaventure is using its major studies programs to attract students… Read More ›