Enigmatic? No: He yearned, he sometimes said, to be other than what he was. “I wish I could be more like normal people — like these people here,” he told The Yakima Herald-Republic of Washington in 2003, indicating passers-by in Leavenworth, Wash., his hometown of...
Author: Dave Brockington
Born in San Jose, grew up in Seattle, received a Ph.D. in poli sci from University of Washington in 2000. I worked for three years at Universiteit Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, and have worked at the University of Plymouth for 16 academic years now in Plymouth, United Kingdom. I also currently serve as joint campaign coordinator for the Plymouth Sutton & Devonport Constituency Labour Party.
A convenient overview of the state of play of the European Championships can be found here. My typically ill-conceived predictions can be found here. I watched three of the matches,.
[NB: I wrote this before today's results.] This might be a bit rubbish. If you want a solid analysis, turn to long time friend of LGM Randy Paul, who did.
The NYT has a nuanced article that discusses a new study released by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU. Basically, contra conventional wisdom, the Roberts Court finds in favor of free speech at a lower rate than the three previous Courts. The Roberts Court has...
Romney has critiqued Obama for being '"a “job killer” who is “in over his head”'; and one quote (which I can not source at the moment) has him claiming.
A lot of you might have seen this already, but John Sides (of GWU and the Monkey Cage) has a nice piece at 538 that combines data from both Silver.
it turns out he's somewhat opposed, if we can interpret "social programs led to the collapse of the British Empire" and "the British National Healthcare system is a devastating program that makes it dependent" as opposition. A couple summers ago I wrote a post here...
With the vast majority of the counties reporting, and all the major population centers in Iowa at 98% or more, it looks like Iowa is done for 2012. Barring dramatic.
Slate has a solid article on "why you should be drinking cheap wine". While I know my way around a bottle a bit better than the average person, I strongly.
There's a lot that makes sense here. Some of the high points: It’s true that foreigners now hold large claims on the United States, including a fair amount of government debt. But every dollar’s worth of foreign claims on America is matched by 89 cents’...
or so desires Robert Reich. I have several quibbles with this, from an empirical perspective. First, the strong implication is that Obama-Clinton would gain more votes than Obama-Biden, or specifically,.
The blog over at the LSE, British Politics and Policy at LSE, has an interesting post on the relationship between teacher pay and educational attainment outcomes. A fuller summary of the.