Why has Trump succeeded where others would have failed?
Oct 18, 2016 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The 2016 US presidential election has been unprecedented in several ways. For starters, seasoned psephologists were surprised by Donald Trumps success in the Republican primaries. And while the fundamentals of the...
Why is the US Green Party so irrelevant?
Oct 18, 2016 05:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Many Americans value environmental protection and want to see more of it. But Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, is drawing only 1 to 3 percent in recent polls, even in an election where many voters...
How does Obama's use of unilateral powers compare to other presidents?
Oct 18, 2016 05:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
During a 2008 town hall event, then Senator Barack Obama told the audience that as a legal scholar and teacher, he took the Constitution very seriously. He went on to criticize the Bush administration, asserting: The...
What the presidential candidates' data can tell us about Trump and Clinton
Oct 18, 2016 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Its election season, and the candidates and campaigns eyes are on you, the voter. Figuring out what you think about something a candidate said last night or tweeted this morning is very big business. All this gathering of...
Donald Trump is taking a page from Reconstruction-era white supremacists
Oct 12, 2016 04:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trump has a lot in common with former Confederates white southerners who redeemed the South by bringing an end to Reconstruction 140 years ago. Like the Redeemers, Trump fears that electoral fraud threatens the...
Trump vs. Clinton: Three key moments from the second debate
Oct 10, 2016 06:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took the debate stage Sunday evening. We asked three scholars from the Washington University in St. Louis, where the debate was held, to pick a key quote from the evening and tell us why it...
Trump and Clinton's second debate: American politics is in the gutter
Oct 10, 2016 06:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The second US presidential election debate was widely billed as a heavyweight bout. In the event it was a score draw but the clear loser was the American political process. This election continues to be a rollercoaster...
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