New Orleans The Cost of Voting in the American States, 2022, is an invaluable guide that provides a nonpartisan, in fact, academic, ranking of what states do to make it harder or easier to vote in terms of access, convenience, registration, and other factors. This is a public service provided by political science …
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Easy Ways to Destroy Public Trust
Pearl River It’s important to believe that the vast majority of public officials are honest and straight forward servants of the common weal. Why do some of them have such a blind spot in this area and such a ready willingness to destroy public trust? Take insider trading for example. The slimmest minority of …
Asylum Seekers Freedom Rides
New Orleans Sometimes I have to wonder, “what are they thinking?” Reading about the political shenanigans that began with Texas Governor Abbott and have now been picked up by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and maybe soon by Arizona’s Republican governor as well are a headscratcher for me. They …