Finally, recent comments by elected officials,including Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who called for protesters to stay on the streets and “get more confrontational” in the event of an acquittal, prompted a mistrial motion by the defense on the day of closing arguments. The denial of this mot...
A Divided Political Elite: Why Congress Banned Multimember Districts in 1842*This article challenges two assumptions commonly held by scholars of third parties and the American electoral system: That single-member congressional districts were established at the foundation of the United States, and that...
The governments of China and Russia have always seen American rhetoric about freedom as cynical cover for the belief that might is right. Tragically, under Mr Trump their suspicions have been confirmed. 这很重要。美国人很容易高估和低估自己在世界上的影响力。仅凭美国的军事力量无法改变外国,阿富汗...
America’s democracy is robust—it was designed to be. However, one by one, its institutions are being infected with toxic polarisation. Congress caught the bug in the 1990s, when Newt Gingrich was Speaker. The media have also fallen victim to partisan scepticism—certainly among audiences, if ...
The EPA data is divided by FIPS codes that section off the named counties into smaller more easily organized areas. This means that St. John The Baptist is actually made up of a dozen different FIPS codes all of which appear in the top 50 FIPS codes on the list when sorted by Total Ca...
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United ...
Abstention by professional voters is well documented in Congress, federal adjudicative boards, administrative tribunals, and local government agencies. Furthermore, many European countries have laws affirmatively requiring judges to vote, illustrating a concern that they might abstain but for such a rule....
What is East Jerusalem and why is it so sensitive? For nearly two decades after the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the city of Jerusalem was divided. East Jerusalem was controlled by the Jordanians, while West Jerusalem was controlled by the Israelis, who made it their capital. ...
After all, the Democrats had occupied the White House for two consecutive terms, and had already lost control of both branches of Congress as well as most state governorships and legislatures. Warren G. Harding, who is often considered the worse chief executive ever, was elected under ...
GILOVICH: They can, like in many disciplines, be divided into experimental and non-experimental accountants. What’s an experimental accountant? DAVIDAI: What they do is study the human aspects and the human behavior of accounting. So things like auditing, things like, when do people lie? And...