The Electoral College has a surprising vulnerability
In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, changing just 269 votes in Florida from George W. Bush to Al Gore would have changed the outcome of the entire national election. Similarly…
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In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, changing just 269 votes in Florida from George W. Bush to Al Gore would have changed the outcome of the entire national election. Similarly…
President Trump is having a rally problem. This past weekend he was forced to cancel a highly-touted rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, supposedly because of "bad weather." They don't normally cancel Trump…
Every week since the start of the pandemic has brought new headlines about a coronavirus vaccine. In early June, there was news about human trials starting for a Johnson & Johnson…
On Friday, July 3, Fourth of July Eve, President Donald Trump held a stars-and-stripes bonanza in front of Mount Rushmore with all the trimmings for a secular Christmas feast: a…
Well, that was a Fourth of July weekend for the books, wasn't it? As a deadly pandemic continues to sweep through the country, resulting in an economic disaster, the president…
OK, the Law & Order hunt Is now officially on. Atty. Gen. William P. Barr has directed the formation of an interagency task force dedicated to countering "anti-government extremists" from…
Conservatives often extol the tough, no-nonsense approach taken by leaders of corporate interests as a way to run government more efficiently. But do businessmen really have any business being president? …
There's a new Fox News poll out surveying key swing state opinions about the 2020 race for the White House, and it paints a bleak picture for President Donald Trump's…
All leaders are demagogues. You may not realize this, because we've come to associate the word "demagogue" with only dangerous populist leaders. But in Greek, the word just means "leader…
A recent study suggests that the algorithm used by popular ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft may actually discriminate against customers seeking transportation in predominantly non-white neighborhoods. Aylin Caliskan and Akshat Pandey…