Threats to Public Servants

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...

Civility and Protest

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...

Presidential Speeches

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...

Dissatisfaction with Democracy

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...