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On a host of issues, including taxes and healthcare, the Republican Party has moved sharply to the right in recent years. And in the Senate, that rightward shift can be largely attributed to one man: Jim DeMint. DeMint, the junior…
Now that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have officially dropped out of the Presidential race, former Governor Mitt Romney’s path to the nomination is all but certain. (Ron Paul continues his quixotic trek toward the GOP convention, but he is…
Politic Poll Examines Yalies’ Policy Preferences According to a survey conducted in early February, The Politic found that Yale students generally self-identify as liberal and are remarkably supportive of President Barack Obama. As I wrote for The Politic on March…
This year’s GOP primary season is officially wrapping up and Mitt Romney appears to have secured the Republican nomination for President. And what a ride it’s been! The GOP field was as fractured as it’s been in at least a…
A Politic poll of Yale undergraduates reveals that students are liberal, supportive of Obama Since reaching the lowest approval rating of his Presidency in late fall — around 40 percent according to most surveys — Barack Obama has rebounded in the…
A recent piece in the New York Times lamented the lack of humorous quotables from this season’s GOP campaign trail. Sure, the candidates have been the collective butts of many a joke, but they aren’t intentionally funny, which is really…
The Supreme Court’s Citizens United vs. FEC decision, which allowed for corporations and unions to spend freely from their treasuries, opened the floodgates of campaign spending and has increased the number of off-year campaign commercials dramatically. Although 2012 will undoubtedly…
I asked two friends to read a recent article in Foreign Affairs on the relationship between income inequality and American decline. You can find the piece by George Packer here at http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136402/george-packer/the-broken-contract You might also appreciate the back and forth…
