by jpitney | Oct 31, 2021 | Election Security, Elections, Uncategorized
Testimony of Al Schmidt, City Commissioner of Philadelphia, The Committee on Rules and Administration of the United States Senate, Emerging Threats to Election Administration, Tuesday, October 26, 2021 “This is domestic terrorism. The whole point is to terrorize, to...
by jpitney | Oct 30, 2021 | Claremont McKenna College, International Relations, Uncategorized
The Diversity and Diplomacy panel discussion took place on Thursday, October 28, 2021. Ambassadors and foreign service officers discussed the efforts the Department of State is making to diversify its workforce. The organizers were the Claremont McKenna College...
by jpitney | Oct 30, 2021 | Civility, Vaccine
Gov. Spencer J. Cox and Seth Brysk at The Deseret News: Protecting public health should never be equated to the horrors committed by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. Encouraging vaccinations does not compare to schemes hastening the mass murder of millions of...
by jpitney | Oct 29, 2021 | Claremont McKenna College, Presidency
Claremont McKenna professor John Pitney teaches a class about presidential speeches and public opinion, focusing on the 1970s through the 1990s. It will begin airing this Saturday on C-SPAN 2. It will air at 8am, 11am, 8pm & 11pm ET. Afterwards it will be...
by jpitney | Oct 29, 2021 | Democracy, Public Opinion
Richard Wike and colleagues report on a survey of 17 advanced economies surveyed this spring by Pew Research Center: A median of 57% across 17 publics say they are satisfied with the way their democracy is working. But while views of democracy are relatively positive...
