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On Presidents Day, Questioning Power
Feb 20 2023
Is the presidency too powerful? Tracing the evolution of presidential power, this reading list provides the history, laws, and politics behind how wide-ranging presidential powers can and should be.
Some midterm polls were on-target – but finding which pollsters and poll aggregators to believe can be challenging
Jan 24 2023
By Joseph Campbell, author of Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential ElectionsThis post was originally published on The Conversation and is reprinted here with permission.Pollsters indulged in breezy self-congratulation in the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections. Pre-elec
Maharaja of the West
Oct 17 2019
Excerpted from American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford by Roland De WolkThe origins of the Stanford campus and the Silicon Valley it has incubated, borne, and sustained could not have had a more unlikely birthplace: a frontier bar called the Bull’s Head tavern in the b