Many posts have discussed energy , technology , and immigratio n. Joel Kotkin: > Overall, natural resources > > account for more than half of all Canada’s exports and...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/05/american-strengths.html
A number of posts have discusse d the politics of protest . YouGov survey on campus protest: > Americans are more likely to strongly or somewhat oppose (47%) than > support (28...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/05/opposing-protests.html
Many posts have discussed the role of religion in American life . PRRI: > Majorities across most religious traditions > > say that abortion should be legal i...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/05/religion-and-abortion-opinion.html
Jeff Greenfield at Politico: > The political consequences of the upheaval became clear. While the > doomed liberal campaigns of Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy draw >�...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/05/student-protest-then-and-now.html
Jon Keller at CBS Boston: > You've seen the crowds and heard the rhetoric. But what impact is > all the campus turmoil over the war in Gaza having on public opinion > ...
Many posts have discussed the Founding . Robert Kagan at WP: > Before the American Revolution no government had ever been founded > on liberal principles, and the vast majo...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/the-founding-and-its-enemies.html
CBO : The Department of Defense employs 34 percent of the federal civilian workforce. Those employees work in hundreds of different occupations, but the most common are information technology ...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/federal-workforce.html
Our most recent book is titled Divided We Stand: The 2020 Elections and American Politics . The 2024 race has begun . Democrats thought they saw a leftward shift in 2020. They were ...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/rightward-snapback.html
Many posts have discussed crime in the United States . Deep down in a Pew report by John Gramlich are some startling stats: > Nationwide clearance rates for both violent an...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/literally-getting-away-with-murder.html
In 1970, the Ohio National Guard killed several protesters at Kent State. Philip Bump at WP : > A poll conducted > > after the shootings found that about a third of Americans...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/reaction-to-campus-vietnam-protest.html
Many posts have discussed deliberation , argument , and the value of viewpoint diversity . Princeton President Theodore Eisgruber: > Confrontations at Columbia > , > Yale > , ...
A Tuesday release from the Federal Trade Commission: > Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule > > to promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, p...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/ftc-bans-noncompetes.html
Axios: Never before has the party in control of the House of Representatives knowingly and willingly castrated its own power so thoroughly as today's Republicans, Axios' Juliegrace Brufke and Jus...
Many posts have discussed energy and the environment . On Earth Day, note Ruy Teixeira at The Liberal Patriot: > Is it really possible to hit net zero by 2050? Is it reall...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/earth-day-and-net-zero.html
Many posts have discussed civility in Congres s. The closing words of Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), just before his resignation took effect: > It’s typical at moments such as thes...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/gallagher-says-goodbye-drink-more-tweet.html
At Politico, Ryan Lizza talks to Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), new chair of Appropriations and a cigar aficionado: > I’m a big believer in open humidors and open bars because they > b...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/tom-cole-on-smoking-and-politics.html
A number of posts have discussed congressional capacity , legislative productivit y, and deliberation . In April 1877, Representative (and future President) James A. Garfield wrote...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/garfield-on-congress.html
Many posts have discussed political violence . Jane C. Timm and Joe Murphy at NBC: > Threats and harassment against local public officials rose in 2023, > according to...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/death-threats-and-public-service.html
The Gray Vote: How Older Home-Owning VotersDominate Local ElectionsKatherine Levine Einstein∗Maxwell Palmer†Ellis Hamilton‡Ethan Singer Abstract > Local elections > > are wid...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/older-homeowners-dominate-local.html
Many posts have discussed crime and the court s. SECTION 340.50 > SECTION 340.50 > Defendant's presence at trial > Criminal Procedure (CPL) CHAPTER 11-A, PART 2, TITLE...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/new-york-criminal-defendants-must.html
Most Americans have an unfavorable view of Iran. The weekend attack on Israel will not improve its image. Olivia Reingold at The Free Press: > About 300 anti-war activists crowded ...
From Jack Smith's brief in the immunity case: > Even if this Court holds that a former President is entitled to some > immunity from criminal prosecution > > for official�...
From Democracy in America > To regard the jury simply as a judicial institution would be taking > a very narrow view of the matter, for great though its influence on...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/tocqueville-on-juries.html
Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu at NYT: > Jackson Hinkle has cultivated an online persona so incendiary that > he has been kicked off YouTube, Twitch and Instagram. > > H...
http://www.bessettepitney.net/2024/04/online-antisemitism.html
Many posts have discussed volunteering and civic virtue . Brooks, Arthur C. "America's Crisis of Civic Virtue." Journal of Democracy 35, no. 2 (2024): 23-39. https://doi.org/10.1353...