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By definition, midterm elections do not have a president on the ballot, but in 2026 President Trump is indeed very present. Given the remarkable decline in Trump’s approval ratings, in fact, it’s the Democrats that encourage...
What’s at Stake in the 2026 Midterm Elections?
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If you’ve turned on your tv set recently, you might have noticed a significant number of people engaged in non-stop 30-second attacks on others as immoral, dishonest, crazy, and otherwise unsuited to be members of the human r...
The Supreme Authority in the American System of Government is the Constitution, Not the President
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The American presidency combines two functions that are separate in most parliamentary systems. The president is both head of state and head of government, while in a parliamentary system like Great Britain’s, the monarch is...
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The events of January 6, 2021, were bad enough—they constituted no “peaceful protest” but, rather, an insurrection against the Constitutional process for the transfer of power.
This week in the Atlantic, however, we find a g...
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
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I’m no political innocent, but the state and local political ads I’ve been seeing here in Iowa have been astoundingly negative. It would shock me to learn that this is not the case across the rest of the country.
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After 39 years, I have just retired as a professor emeritus from Drake University's Department of Political Science.
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