Oct 10 Watch Supreme Court Hears Affirmative Action Challenges by Public College Applicants Supreme Court Hears Affirmative Action Challenges by Public College Applicants… Continue watching
Oct 10 Battleground Dispatches: Reporting from the Election's Front Lines By Mike Melia Voting booths set up for early voting at the Black Hawk County Courthouse on September 27, 2012 in Waterloo, Iowa. In Iowa, 36 percent of voters cast an early ballot in 2008. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. The presidential race… Continue reading
Oct 10 American Ideology? There Is No Such Thing By Paul Solman American flags at the U.S. Capitol. Photo by: Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy and Senior Lecturer Charles Hill has been on the Yale faculty since the mid-'90s after a long career in the U.S. Foreign… Continue reading
Oct 10 American Ideology? There is No Such Thing By Paul Solman American flags at the U.S. Capitol. Photo by: Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images This is the second of two consecutive Making Sen$e posts by esteemed academic colleagues at different places on the political spectrum who don't have blogs, don't have… Continue reading
Oct 10 House Hearing on Attack on U.S. Consulate in Libya By Larisa Epatko The House is seeking answers in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Continue reading
Oct 10 Fresh Batch of Polls Show Race Tightening in Battleground States By Christina Bellantoni President Obama speaks at a campaign event Tuesday at Ohio State University. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images. With each passing day since last week's presidential debate in Denver, there are growing signs that the race between President Obama and Mitt… Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch News Wrap: Polls Show President Obama Leads in Ohio, But Narrowly In other news Wednesday, new polls show that President Obama still leads in Ohio. Following the first presidential debate, the gap between the two candidates narrowed, energizing both campaigns' efforts to win over the last undecided voters before Election Day. Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch As Romney Cuts into Obama's Lead, Both Vie for Critical Votes in Swing States As Romney Cuts into Obama's Lead, Both Vie for Critical Votes in Swing States… Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch Jerry Sandusky Sentenced to at Least 30 Years for Sexual Abuse of Young Boys Sentence Means Jerry Sandusky Will Likely Spend Rest of His Life Behind Bars… Continue watching
Oct 09 Listen to Me: Spotlight Tennessee By Meena Ganesan In the latest installment from our Listen to Me series, where we ask voters what they think of the political system, we travel down south, to country music's heartland -- Tennessee. In 2008, the state cast its 11 electoral votes… Continue reading