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August 20, 2008

Saddleback a Comfy Fit for McCain – an op-ed by Alan Schroeder

In an op-ed piece for the Boston Globe yesterday, Presidential Debates author Alan Schroeder explains how the appearance of both candidates over the weekend at Rick Warren’s Saddleback church sheds light on what to expect for the upcoming presidential debates...

August 5, 2008

Vice Presidential Candidates and the Debates: A Post by Alan Schroeder

The following post is by Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV In selecting their running mates, Barack Obama and John McCain will choose not just a prospective vice president, but also a vice presidential debater. ...

July 22, 2008

More on The Measure of America: A Quiz and Article from the Social Science Research Council

As The Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-2009 continues to garner attention for its truly eye-opening findings about the United States, the Social Science Research Council has decided to put you to the test. The quiz they have...

July 18, 2008

The Highest and Lowest-Ranking Districts in the U.S.: More from The Measure of America

In separate articles, New York’s Daily News and the Huffington Post look at findings from The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 that determine the best and worst Congressional Districts in the United States in terms of such...

July 15, 2008

The New Yorker Cover Controversy and the History of Editorial Cartoons

While the New Yorker Obama cover has been dominating the news cycle for the past 24 hours, disputes and controversies regarding editorial cartoons are hardly new. Here are a couple of books that offer some historical perspective: In her forthcoming...

July 8, 2008

Presidential Debabtes: Beyond the 4th of July / A Post by Alan Schroeder

The following post is by Alan Schroeder author of the recently published Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV. You can also read Schroeder’s description of the Nixon-Kennedy debate from Presidential Debates. To the chagrin of political junkies everywhere, the...

July 2, 2008

International Trade & Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage

Bringing together the approaches of ethics and economics, Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy propose ways in which the international trading system can support poor countries in promoting the well-being of their peoples. Barry and Reddy elaborate their argument in...

July 1, 2008

The Measure of America

In the coming weeks, we’ll be writing much more about the forthcoming The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 but for now we wanted to let you know that the American Human Development Project has set up a...

June 5, 2008

Benjamin Barber on the Clinton Legacy

With Hillary Clinton dropping out of the race and Bill Clinton recently telling a crowd in South Dakota that he may not be involved in another political campaign, attention will undoubtedly once again turn to examining the Clinton legacy and...

May 9, 2008

Keith Woods on How the Media Has Covered Race in the Presidential Campaign

Earlier this week, Keith Woods, coauthor of The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity, appeared on the Newshour to discuss how the media has covered and talked about the issue of race in this year’s presidential race....

May 6, 2008

A Possible Peace between Israel and Palestine: A Posting from Menachem Klein

Menachem Klein is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and was a team member of the Geneva Initiative negotiations of 2003. He has advised both the Israeli government and the Israeli delegation for...

April 30, 2008

The Wright/Obama Controversy: Perspectives from Houston Baker and Todd Gitlin

In a very interesting post yesterday, Salon asked a panel of political and cultural experts, including Houston Baker and Todd Gitlin, to weigh in on the debates surrounding Rev. Wright’s remarks and what Obama should respond. Todd Gitlin defended Obama...

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