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This year’s GOP primary season is officially wrapping up and Mitt Romney appears to have secured the Republican nomination for President. And what a ride it’s been! The GOP field was as fractured as it’s been in at least a…
A Politic poll of Yale undergraduates reveals that students are liberal, supportive of Obama Since reaching the lowest approval rating of his Presidency in late fall — around 40 percent according to most surveys — Barack Obama has rebounded in the…
A recent piece in the New York Times lamented the lack of humorous quotables from this season’s GOP campaign trail. Sure, the candidates have been the collective butts of many a joke, but they aren’t intentionally funny, which is really…
The Supreme Court’s Citizens United vs. FEC decision, which allowed for corporations and unions to spend freely from their treasuries, opened the floodgates of campaign spending and has increased the number of off-year campaign commercials dramatically. Although 2012 will undoubtedly…
I asked two friends to read a recent article in Foreign Affairs on the relationship between income inequality and American decline. You can find the piece by George Packer here at http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136402/george-packer/the-broken-contract You might also appreciate the back and forth…
Tuesday, November 8 marked the surprising defeat of Mississippi’s “Personhood Amendment.” The ballot measure, also known as Initiative 26, which was widely expected to pass, was trounced by an overwhelming margin of 58 – 42. The Colorado-based group called Personhood…
For many political–minded Yale students, Tuesday, November 8 marks the date of the Ward 1 Aldermanic election, in which students will decide between Sarah Eidelson (JE ’12) and Vinay Nayak (DC ’14). But this election — while, of course, an…
Halloween for most people means jack-o’-lanterns and trick-or-treaters, “The Great Pumpkin” and the “Treehouse of Horror.” But for many politicians, it is simply another opportunity for a photo op, a feel-good article in the local paper or even a chance…
