December 3, 2008
It appears that MSNBC may have finally made their much-anticipated decision as to who will succeed the late Tim Russert as the next host of Meet the Press: the most watched Sunday talk show in America and the longest-running television show in broadcast history. In an article posted Monday, The Huf...
go to article »November 18, 2008
The significance of the transition period for an incoming presidential administration cannot be overstated: not only does it offer the opportunity for the President-Elect to identify the priorities within his or her legislative and policy agenda for the forthcoming term, but it also represents the ...
go to article »November 4, 2008
The Huffington Post is carrying an intriguing story regarding a survey conducted exactly two years ago by polling company SurveyNow, gauging the balance of voter support across the country in the event of a hypothetical Barack Obama-John McCain presidential showdown in 2008. Interviewing 600 vot...
go to article »November 2, 2008
Given that the barriers of race and gender have been progressively eroded throughout the prolonged campaign season, many people have argued that this year's general election is something extraordinary by most measures. For Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar, however, the 2008 election rep...
go to article »October 29, 2008
In a piece noting how Howard Dean's career has turned around since becoming Democratic National Committee Chairman a year after his front-running presidential campaign imploded, J. Patrick Coolican argues that the Democrats' bright electoral fortunes in the past couple years are a clear val...
go to article »October 20, 2008
The impact the result of this year's general election will have on the activism of the United States Supreme Court in the years to come has been all too frequently overlooked and underappreciated by political commentators based outside of America. However, with three Justices likely to vacat...
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The communist witch-hunt headed by Senator Joe McCarthy in the late 1940s and early 1950s represents one of the darkest periods in American history: an era of frenzied paranoia and suspicion, when distrust and intolerance ran rife throughout many spectrums of American society. That this atmosphere ...
go to article »October 16, 2008
Those of us who are expecting some last minute drama to emerge from tonight's debate--the third act of what so far has been a relatively lacklustre piece of political theatre--will be sorely disappointed. There will be no sharp quips or witty sound bytes that leave an indelible imprint on th...
go to article »October 12, 2008
A 263-page report released yesterday by the Alaskan legislature has concluded that Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin personally exerted pressure in her capacity as Governor of Alaska to get Trooper Michael Wooten dismissed, while at the same time allowing both her husband and aides t...
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The continued salience of the world's financial market meltdown may mean that the intensity of the media's spotlight will not burn quite as bright or be as probing as in previous weeks; nor does the nature of the crime appear sufficiently severe in its nature to force John McCain's hand...
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