America Decides

 
We were fortunate to be given a presentation on the forthcoming mid-term elections by Jeff Karp, who is the University’s Senior Lecturer in Electoral Politics.
Jeff kindly volunteered to fill a spot vacated by Labour leadership contender John McDonnell, who sent his apologies for his absence due to an urgent constituency matter, and gave us a [...]

Call that a story?

The lone regular reader out there will recall that I’ve already mentioned Kenny Young, who spent his summer helping out Bob Casey’s campaign to topple the incumbent Republican Rick Santorum in an absorbing Senate race.
I bumped into Kenny, always good for a laugh, at Saturday’s Progress Conference – which I’ll try and write about soon - and it [...]

We’re still with you

 
Nobody needs to be reminded what day it is today.
There are thousands of conspiracy theories surrounding the tragic events of five years ago and plenty of students (as well as those with the maturity to know better) view the home of Jackson, Lincoln, FDR, Dr. King and Camelot through the narrowest of neo-conservative prisms. That [...]