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President Obama: Shareholders, Workers — Let Everyone Vote

Zelinsky responds to President Obama’s recent endorsement of the Employee Free Choice Act which would eliminate the legal requirement of a secret ballot vote before workers unionize. Zelinsky argues that Democrats and Republicans alike should simultaneously affirm Americans’ right as shareholders to vote on matters of corporate policy including managerial compensation and Americans’ right as workers to vote whether to belong to a union. At the most basic level, the secret ballot is the American way. Continue reading

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Reflections on National Geography Awareness Week, 2008

Harm de Blij reflects on the importance of National Geography Awareness Week. Continue reading

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Sarah Palin Will Not Debate

Lim looks at Sarah Palin’s indirect answers in the debate last week.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Sarah Palin Will Not Debate”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/10/palin-debate/” }); Continue reading

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Whoever Said that VP Picks Don’t Matter?

Elvin Lim looks at the nomination of Sara Palin.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Whoever Said that VP Picks Don’t Matter?”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/palin/” }); Continue reading

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The Vice Presidency: From Balance to Ballast

Zelinsky looks at vice presidential candidates.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “The Vice Presidency: From Balance to Ballast”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/08/vice_president/” }); Continue reading

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Intellection and Intuition

Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency, which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents’ ability to communicate with the public. He also blogs at www.elvinlim.com.  In the article [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Intellection and Intuition”, url: “http://blog.oup.com/2008/08/obama-2/” }); Continue reading

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