Tag: Republican Party
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...
Fundamentalism turns 100, a landmark for the Christian Right
William Trollinger, University of Dayton
These days, the term “fundamentalism” is often associated with a militant form of Islam.
But the original fundamentalist movement was actually...
School vouchers expand despite evidence of negative effects
Christopher Lubienski, Indiana University and Joel R Malin, Miami University
For the past couple of decades, proponents of vouchers for private schools have been pushing...
Republican women are just fine, thank you, with being Republican
Christine A. Kray, Rochester Institute of Technology; Hinda Mandell, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology
Republican women have faced a...
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...
Kris Kobach and Kansas’ SAFE Act
Chelsie Bright, Mills College
If you want to understand President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, it helps to study what happened in Kansas.
Six years...
Why some are applauding Donald Trump Jr’s ‘win at all costs’...
Daniel M. Shea, Colby College
To many, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr. was anxious to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russians will...
Why Montana just elected Greg Gianforte, a man charged with assault,...
Lee Banville, The University of Montana
Until just about 24 hours before the polls closed, the race for Montana’s sole congressional seat seemed...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
