(Rand Paul | Source: Creative Commons) Rand Paul’s principled stance against the National Security Agency’s domestic spying (he’s called its overreach “fundamentally unconstitutional“) has lifted his presidential prospects—even as the mainstream of the GOP, which New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is also vying to represent, remains considerably more hawkish than he is. Christie has characterized […]

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(Source: Fourth Estate) A political issue can often be judged by the extent to which satire about it can be read with a straight face. We make fun of people who take satire seriously, but sometimes a serious response is the only one to have. Into this discursive space, let us welcome The Onion and […]

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U.S. politics is usually dominated by debates over domestic policy, so it has almost been forgotten that the downhill slide of the Bush coalition began because of their mismanagement of foreign affairs. The midterm election of 2006 was carried by the Democrats due to anger over the Iraq war. Though the political scene here in […]

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(Source: New York Daily News) The federal minimum wage could be the central issue of the 2014 midterms. There are obviously other issues in play: gun control, immigration, and revelations of domestic spying by the National Security Agency, just to name three. But jobs and the economy still rank high in opinion polls across party […]

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(Ted Cruz | Source: Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com) Citizenship has become the hot topic in Washington this summer, with the firefight over immigration reform and with the news that 1,800 Americans have renounced their U.S. citizenship rather than reveal their secret Swiss or Cayman Island banks accounts and with the story that Senator Ted Cruz isn’t […]

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