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• Tonight’s Debate: ‘A National Embarrassment’

  By Jandoli Institute on September 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  By Michael P. Riccards In 1960, the nation had its first live televised presidential debate with Kennedy and Nixon. It was fascinating and enlightening. But tonight it was a national embarrassment with Trump and Biden. What are we doing as… Read More ›

• A debate playlist for two men singing different tunes

  By Jandoli Institute on September 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  By Richard Lee By the time Joe Biden and Donald Trump take the stage tonight for the first debate of the 2020 campaign, most voters will already have made up their minds about how they will cast their ballots. In… Read More ›

• Is it still the economy, stupid?

  By Jandoli Institute on September 28, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Notorious RBG: A reflection of her life on my own

  By Jandoli Institute on September 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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 Jandoli Institute on September 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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 Jandoli Institute on September 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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 Jandoli Institute on September 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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 Jandoli Institute on September 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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 Jandoli Institute on September 19, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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 Jandoli Institute on September 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

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