Friday, April 26, 2013

Dick Gephardt And Education Reform In Minneapolis

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MinnPost has a tragic/comedic article about (yet another) brouhaha surrounding the issue of education reform in Minneapolis.  Minneapolis P...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

The Dismal State Of The Dismal Science Continued

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Maybe we are just in a news lull with the end of the Boston bombing mega story, but there was a lot of chatter yesterday about how smart, or...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Obama and LBJ

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It's become chic lately to compare Obama's legislative record unfavorably with LBJ's. The New York Times ran a front page artic...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Why George W. Bush Was Such A Bad President

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Over at his blog, political scientist Jonathan Bernstein made a great point about why George W. Bush turned out to be such a disaster as Pr...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The Dismal State Of The Dismal Science

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Economics occupies a strange place in our public sphere.  While it is certainly one of social sciences that relies heavily on theory and arg...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

Please Don't Say "Mullahs," And Can We Please Wait A Few More Years Before The Next War?

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So some "distinguished professor" at the University of Texas named Jeremi Suri has an Op-Ed in The New York Times where he calls ...
Friday, April 12, 2013

A Problem With Protests

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Over at The Monkey Cage Joshua Tucker put up a great post on how to make political science research more accessible. While the video is ce...