by Patricia S. Parker, author of Ella Baker’s Catalytic Leadership: A Primer on Community Engagement and Communication for Social Justice
When former Vice-President Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination as President of the United States in August, he began his remarks wi...
This excerpt from Lost in Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections revisits the many confident expressions about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s candidacy in the final days and hours before the 2016 general election. A close outcome seemed possible, but her defeat was implausib...
By Jennifer L. Holland, author of Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement
The 2020 edition of American politics is showing once again the power of a politized conservative minority —for whom legal abortion trumps all other issues. For these conservatives, abortion is ...
by W. Joseph Campbell, author of Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections
This post was originally featured in The Conversation, and has been reblogged with permission.
Poll-bashing – the aggressive, even extreme lambasting of pollsters and their work – u...
by Robert C. Bartlett, author of Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy, New Translations of the Acharnians and the Knights
It’s fair to say that ours are troubled times, with deep economic division, racial strife, and ...
by Corey D. Fields, author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans
The 2020 Republican National Convention featured a diverse line-up of speakers, including many Black speakers who trumpeted the Republican Party and its presidential nomin...