political science

Mind your business, we’ll mind ours
Commentary, Nation World
NOLAN FINLEY The Detroit News 
May 19, 2025
DETROIT (TNS) — President Donald Trump redefined America's role in the world during last week's four-day trip to the Middle East. Since World War II, ...
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League of Women Voters recognized as ALL IN award winner
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News
Olean Times Herald staff 
Apr 14, 2025
OLEAN — The League of Women Voters of Cattaraugus and Allegany Counties has been honored as one of 37 ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge champion award...
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Readers’ Turn to Write: Taking lessons from history
Commentary, Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
BILL STEPHEN 
Mar 20, 2025
The country’s political and economic instability, combined with its citizens’ anger and dissatisfaction with the state of the country, enables a chari...
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New York’s answer to billionaire-fueled campaigns
Commentary, New York
CELINA AVALOS JARAMILLIO and IAN VANDEWALKER 
Feb 28, 2025
NEW YORK — When it comes to presidential politics, it’s a billionaire’s world. President Donald Trump’s campaign was buoyed by a few megadonors. It mi...
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Europe’s self-inflicted irrelevance
Commentary, Nation World
ANDREW LATHAM RealClearPolitics 
Feb 20, 2025
The great and the good of Europe gathered in Paris for yet another emergency summit, this time to discuss Ukraine and “security in Europe.” The specta...
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Overcoming our modern-day house divided
Commentary, Nation World
DANIEL LIPINSKI RealClearPolitics 
Feb 12, 2025
With all the tumult surrounding the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, there is once again an uptick in talk of concern about the futu...
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Student governments must ditch national politics
Commentary, Nation World
ALEX ROSADO RealClearPolitics 
Jan 17, 2025
As politics have become increasingly nationalized and polarized, more and more local political bodies are being swept up by the news of the day to the...
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The federal government’s rusty machinery
Commentary, Nation World
Nov 18, 2024
Elon Musk has wasted little time laying the groundwork for his job in the next Trump administration, overseeing the new Department of Government Effic...
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Worries about voter fraud were unfounded
Commentary, Local Columnists
NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Nov 18, 2024
One thing that shocked me about this year’s presidential election campaign was how many of my fellow Republicans and conservatives expected to lose, b...
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GOP won. Time to prove it was deserved
Commentary, Nation World
MATT WYLIE The Charlotte Observer/TNS 
Nov 08, 2024
The Republican victories were resounding and unmistakable — so decisive that Donald Trump’s win was projected in less than 12 hours after the polls cl...
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