During the Democratic debate, one of the most frequently asked topics pertained to the economy. Further, most of the economic questions were asked to top candidates. A reason for this can be attributed to viewership and the publicity that debates… Read More ›
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Health care and economy dominate debate
Throughout the Sep. 12 Democratic debate in Texas, the 10 candidates continued to state their cases on why each should become the next president of the United States. The frontrunners — Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders — were… Read More ›
Have voters lost interest in Kamala Harris?
One of the most outrageous parts of the third Democratic debate was that Sen. Kamala Harris was asked only two questions during the time period in which our class watched the debate. At the time of the debate, Harris was… Read More ›
Five things you should know about the last Democratic Party debate
Thanks to today’s 24/7 new cycle, we have come to expect instant analyses of political debates. But students in an elections honors course at St. Bonaventure University have taken a different approach to the debate that 10 Democratic presidential candidates… Read More ›
A Civil War scholar adds context to Trump’s tweet
By Chris Mackowski With impeachment in the air, political rhetoric has already ratcheted to such a level that it’s hard to tell what’s really going on without making an effort to sift through the clutter. In the midst of that… Read More ›
Voter ignorance makes the media cover elections as entertainment
By Michael P. Riccards We have spent a small fortune on examining whether the Russian government in 2016 has tried to influence the presidential election. Of course they did, and the U.S. government has tried to influence abroad since World… Read More ›
The talented journalists at the NYT should give us more than anti-Trump venom
By Michael P. Riccards Sometime ago, the New York Times sent a glossy brochure to its loyal subscribers which was a remarkable and expensive defense of how the newspaper comprises its editions and the various department that it uses. It… Read More ›
It makes little sense to impeach the president
By Michael P. Riccards The impeachment clause in the Constitution is in the document for rare and stark misconduct and treason. When the Jeffersonians started to use that clause to clean out the Federalist judiciary, the legislative branch finally balked…. Read More ›
The Who’s ‘Tommy’ has the makings of a good political candidate
By Richard Lee As the 50th anniversary of the Who’s Tommy approached, I devoted my WSBU-FM radio show to a musical look at how Tommy would fare as a presidential candidate. Don’t laugh. Tommy has a compelling personal story that… Read More ›
A musical look at the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates
By Richard Lee “A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over.” – Joe Hill, songwriter and labor activist In the spirit of Joe Hill’s… Read More ›
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