Policy versus populism: what can we expect from the first presidential debate?
Sep 23, 2016 05:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The first US presidential debate is less than a week away and while it will certainly offer spectacle and entertainment, I am hoping, perhaps naively, that the candidates will finally engage in a serious discussion of how...
Everything you wanted to know about US elections but were afraid to ask
Sep 22, 2016 22:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
US presidential elections are more than politics: they are now part of global popular culture, gaining a place in the publics diary of must-see events alongside those other two major quadrennial events the FIFA World Cup...
A Hillary Clinton IT Personnel Reportedly Asked Redditors For Email Altering Advice
Sep 22, 2016 11:16 am UTC| Technology Politics
There is a probe currently underway with regards to reports that an IT personnel employed by thepresidential aspirant Hillary Clinton asked users at Reddit for advice on altering emails back in 2014. Representatives from...
Harvard study: Policy issues nearly absent in presidential campaign coverage
Sep 21, 2016 07:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Years ago, when I first started teaching and was at Syracuse University, one of my students ran for student body president on the tongue-in-cheek platform Issues are Tissues, without a T. He was dismissing out of hand...
US Election Series: African-Americans ponder upon the question posed by Trump
Sep 20, 2016 12:43 pm UTC| Commentary Politics
What has been worrying the Democrats lately is the question posed by Republican nominee Donald Trump at a rally in Wisconsin, where he asked the African-Americans to honestly judge, what the voting for Democrats for the...
If Donald Trump takes control of the US drone fleet ...
Sep 20, 2016 11:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
When future historians look back on his presidency, Barack Obama will be remembered for many things but among them all, perhaps the most stark is his open embrace of unmanned aerial systems, popularly referred to as...
US Election Series: Hillary Clinton outspends Trump in ads but Trump gets more airtime
Sep 20, 2016 11:16 am UTC| Commentary Politics
It would be no exaggeration to say that when it comes to advertisements, Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trumps campaign is drowning under the tidal waves of ads from Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clintons...
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US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
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