January 12, 2017
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by Justin Maher McCormack Graduate School Dean’s Office Tuesday night, President Obama took the stage to deliver his farewell address. In it, he painted an optimistic portrait of a nation filled with promise and people of all political stripes ready to … Continue reading
November 3, 2016
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by Robert Turner Senior Fellow, McCormack Graduate School Beware the polls of November–especially the ones picking “likely” winners. Whom to believe? Is Clinton ahead by 7 percentage points (51-44), as the latest NBC/Survey Monkey poll indicates? Or perhaps by 3 … Continue reading
November 1, 2016
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by Marcia Mundt Public Policy PhD student Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton engaged in three heated and colorful debates this election season discussing controversial issues including police violence, appointing a new justice on the Supreme Court, and the future of … Continue reading
October 3, 2016
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by Christian Weller Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs Despite six years of “recovery” from the Great Recession, America’s middle class still struggles financially amid sluggish economic growth and middling job creation. The Federal Reserve’s near-zero interest rates have helped … Continue reading
September 30, 2016
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By Christine Thurlow Brenner Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs The oft quoted line from Robert Frost’s poem, “Mending Wall,” “good fences make good neighbors” belies the message the poet intended. It is actually his neighbor’s repetitive learned-from-birth isolationist … Continue reading