Tag: Democratic Party
Lessons on wrangling candidates from the masterful moderator of presidential debates,...
Mary Kate Cary, University of Virginia
Boy, do I miss Jim Lehrer.
I thought of the late PBS anchor and legendary presidential debate moderator fondly while...
The two-party system is here to stay
Alexander Cohen, Clarkson University
The American two-party system has long been besieged. Many of the founders feared that organizing people along ideological lines would be...
How one man fought South Carolina Democrats to end whites-only primaries...
Bobby J. Donaldson, University of South Carolina
A rusting chain-link fence represents a “color line” for the dead in Columbia, South Carolina. In Randolph Cemetery,...
The Culinary Union of Nevada takes a pass on endorsing –...
Ruben J. Garcia, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
A picket line outside the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas proved to be a hot ticket...
Vital Signs: the battle for the soul of the US Democrats...
Richard Holden, UNSW
Over the past two days the 20 leading contenders for the role of the US Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential candidate have faced...
Only 1 out of 36 newly elected female representatives in Congress...
Malliga Och, Idaho State University and Shauna Shames, Rutgers University
The 116th Congress will be the most diverse in U.S. history: 126 women will take...
Ohio voters make conservative choices in governor’s primary – picking DeWine,...
Nathaniel Swigger, The Ohio State University
Ohio politics is shifting to the right.
As a political scientist at Ohio State University, that’s my takeaway from seeing...
Black voters won Alabama for the Dems. Here’s what they need...
Sharon Austin, University of Florida
As a scholar of African-American and Southern politics for the last 25 years, I’ve witnessed a lot of election upsets...
EXPLORING NATURE
Hurricanes devastated Florida’s East Coast – then seagrass made an unexpected comeback
Stephanie Insalaco-Wyner, Southwestern University and Hannah V. Herrero, University of Tennessee
Florida’s Indian River Lagoon has been an ecosystem...
