Tag: election

Most of the general public tuned in to watch the second presidential debate the night of Oct. 9, whether they were hoping for entertainment or…

Recently, I received an invitation to participate in a discussion about the election this week at Drexel. The objective was to consider the candidates and…

Andrew Sullivan, writing in the current issue of New York Magazine, calls the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency “an extinction-level event,” the life-form under…

The major party nominees for president in the current election seem set. Donald Trump will now likely amass the 1,237 delegate votes he needs to…

How long should it take to elect a president? In a ministerial-style European system (the Canadians have it too), the contending political parties each choose…

When the Athenians invented democracy about 2600 years ago, they took it straight, no chaser. Every citizen represented himself. The Athenian Assembly was the full…

We have enough problems trying to get young folks to vote in general elections–why even bother trying to get them to the polls in primaries?…

As the 2016 presidential primary elections approach, candidates are vying heavily for college students’ votes across the nation. Students are flooded with campaign advertisements everywhere…

Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center hosted the media logistics walkthrough for the 2016 Democratic National Convention Committee Dec. 3, 2015. The Democratic national convention is a…

Imagine: A foreign war divides the country. Widespread protests at campuses from one border to another. Widespread civil rights injustice in plain sight before the…