Elections: All Articles

Barack Obama: Equality, Diversity and the American Transformation
01/21/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Election of Women: 2012
01/08/2013 — Jo Freeman
After 2012: The Troubled Values of the American Right
11/21/2012 — Aron Hsiao
Truth Defeats Truthiness: Election 2012
11/16/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Coming Home: Demography + Vision = the Re-election of Barack Obama
11/14/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Going Abroad, Thinking of Home: Personal Reflections about the Elections
10/25/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
A Debate About Nothing: Barack Obama v. Mitt Romney (with the Assistance of Jerry Seinfeld)
10/23/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Obama Wins?
10/22/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Obama v. Romney: A Critique of the Culture of Debate
10/18/2012 — Roy Ben-Shai
Romney Loses!
10/17/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
A Dialogue on Politics, Anti-Intellectuals and Ideologues on the Occasion of the Ryan–Biden Debate
10/15/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Biden Wins: So What?
10/12/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Pseudo-Intellectual in American Politics
10/11/2012 — James M. Jasper
On “Don’t Mess with Big Bird”
10/08/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Romney’s Big Bird Moment
10/07/2012 — Aron Hsiao
Romney Wins! So What?
10/04/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Romney – Ryan on Poverty: A Question and Exchange
10/03/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
47: A Prime Political Number for Romney and America
10/01/2012 — Gary Alan Fine
The President’s Speech: Citizenship and the American Story
09/24/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Obama’s Acceptance Speech: Deliberately Re-Considered
09/21/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Holland Playing Safe: Pro-EU Parties Win the Dutch Elections
09/14/2012 — Andrea Hajek
The Three Stigmata of Todd Akin
09/12/2012 — Gary Alan Fine
9/11: A Post on Memory and Forgetting
09/11/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
A Quick Judgment on Obama’s Acceptance Speech and the Democratic Convention
09/07/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The News from Charlotte: The First Two Days of the Democratic National Convention
09/06/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Back to the Future: A Party Platform
08/30/2012 — Aron Hsiao
Reflections on an Irony of American Conservatism: More on the Ryan Nomination
08/24/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Ideology Once Again: Between Past and Future
08/21/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Paul Ryan: Ideologist-in-Chief (Obama Wins!)
08/14/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Politics as an End in Itself: Occupy Wall Street, Debt and Electoral Politics
08/10/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Partisan Change
07/16/2012 — Gary Alan Fine
At Home Abroad, Thinking about Murdoch v. Romney
07/11/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Heat and Light over the Wisconsin Uprising: Cooptation?
06/16/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Heat and Light over the Wisconsin Uprising: On Unions
06/15/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Sports in Politics?
06/14/2012 — Tim Rosenkranz
Lessons of the Wisconsin Uprising
06/08/2012 — Chad Alan Goldberg
On Wisconsin
06/06/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
It’s More Than the Economy, Stupid
06/04/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
German Provincial Elections: On to the Post-Macho Welfare State, Pirates Included
05/16/2012 — Christiane Wilke
Reflections on the Elections in Greece
05/14/2012 — Minas Samatas
Election in France: A European Roosevelt?
05/09/2012 — Jean-Luis Fabiani
The French Presidential Election: In Search of Time Past
04/21/2012 — Jean-Luis Fabiani
The Aggressive Cynicism of Mitt Romney and His Party: A Cynical Society Update Part 2
04/06/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
A Cynical Society Update: Part 1
03/30/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
“The Road We’ve Traveled”: A Serious Political Argument
03/16/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Putin Wins?
03/05/2012 — Esther Kreider-Verhalle
The Right vs. Conservatives vs. The Left
02/23/2012 — Paul E. Gottfried
The Florida Primary and The ADD Electorate
02/01/2012 — Gary Alan Fine
The Republican Reality Show: The Rise and Fall of Not Romney
01/27/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The State of the Union: Opening the Debate of 2012
01/25/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
All You Need to Know about the Republican Primary in South Carolina
01/23/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
President Obama vs. the Republican Congress
01/20/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Thinking about Obama on MLK Day: Governing with Republicans?
01/16/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
All You Need to Know about the Republican Primary in New Hampshire
01/12/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Iowa: The Republicans Fall Apart
01/04/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Brokered Democracy
12/08/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Republicans, Revolutionaries and the Human Comedy
11/22/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Republicans, Obama, and Occupy Wall Street
10/20/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Elections in Poland: More than the Lesser of Two Evils?
10/17/2011 — Nahed Habiballah
Things Come Together: Occupy Wall Street, Solidarity, Elections and Khodorkovsky
10/10/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
President Barack Obama: There is Method to his Madness
09/09/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
DC Week in Review: The American Political Landscape
08/15/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Thinking like a Terrorist
08/10/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
Truth and Politics and The Crisis in Washington
08/01/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Loading the Debt Problem onto the Backs of the Middle Class
07/29/2011 — Richard Alba
Pushing Back Against the Right’s Narrative on the Budget
07/20/2011 — Richard Alba
Is a Simulacrum or Pragmatism Driving Corporate Jet Tax Policy?
07/19/2011 — Michael Corey
Red Jobs, Blue Jobs
07/15/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Iran: The Meaning of Free Politics
07/06/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
DC Week in Review: Two Cheers for Hypocrisy!
07/04/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
What do Mormons, Muslims, Atheists, Gays, and Lesbians Have in Common?
06/30/2011 — Michael Corey
Obama on Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal
06/23/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Elections in Peru, the Runoff
06/08/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
DC Week in Review: Thinking about Public and Private at 37,000 Feet
05/29/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Jürgen Habermas on Power to the Polls
05/25/2011 — Tim Rosenkranz
In Praise of Serious Pols
05/24/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Newt Gingrich and the Politics of Rumor
05/18/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
Barack Obama and Political Transformation
04/19/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Presidential Elections in Peru
04/18/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
DC Week in Review: Ryan’s Budget, the President’s Speech and the Tea Party between Two Assassinations
04/16/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Anger, Hate, Demonization, Villains, and Politics
03/31/2011 — James M. Jasper
The Conundrum of Their Character
01/19/2011 — Gary Alan Fine
For Disappointed Democrats, Action is the Answer
12/07/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Tea Party Goes to Washington: Now What?
11/07/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Rand Paul and the Tea Party go to Washington
11/05/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Voters have Demanded a Change, Again
11/04/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Results Were Expected
11/03/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Today is a Good Day for the Republicans
11/02/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
After Sipping on a Slurpee, Republican Victory Still Likely
— Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Obama Hits the Stump for 2010 Candidates
10/31/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Obama: “Storyteller in Chief”
10/30/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Why Obama’s UW Speech Should Have Made the News
09/29/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb