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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Friday, September 18, 2026

Do I have to choose between Trump and communism?

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Re-creation, RJ Peltz-Steele with Google Gemini CC0 1.0 A sign on my commute distracts me every time, and I find myself thinking about it wa...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Rhode Island primaries open to independent voters, but parties still exert outsized influence over elections

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Governor McKee presses the flesh at a Ghana-unity World Cup event in Providence in June. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Yesterday I voted i...
Monday, August 17, 2026

AI breathes life into Theodore Roosevelt at new Library

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A Savory Tort Photo Essay The new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opened on July 4, in Medora , North Dakota, and I visited last we...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Time has come for permanent DST, but too many legislators prefer to keep Americans in the dark

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Google Gemini image CC0 When the clocks turn back to standard time on the first Sunday in November, the sun will set where I live at about q...
Monday, April 6, 2026

No third term for Trump upon nonconsecutive-term theory, Vyas concludes in 22nd Amendment research

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Trump at CPAC 2019 Mike Licht via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The theory that the President may seek a third term because his two terms were nonconsec...
Monday, March 30, 2026

Bhutan turns tourism into 'Gross National Happiness'

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At the Takin Preserve: Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay with me and visitors from the United Kingdom and United States. Little more ...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Did Donald Trump go to prep school with Citizen Kane?

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I just re-watched the masterpiece  Citizen Kane  (1941) , and a line I'd never noticed before dropped my jaw. I'm teaching a seminar...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Rescission of law dean offer prompts valid angst, but political ire over higher ed impunity is long time coming

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Waterman Hall, University of Arkansas Larry Miller via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 Legal academics is aflutter over the rescinding of an offer of t...