Patterns: Trump, Russia and the 2016 Election: Picks of the Week
Vladimir Putin has a plan for destroying the West—and it looks a lot like Donald Trump | Slate Is Trump a Russian Agent? A Legal Analysis | lawfareblog.com Putin, Erdogan mend ties as post-coup Turkey turns toward Russia | Chicago Tribune “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.” In a remarkable week that saw the first polls showing a Donald Trump … Read More
Picks of the Week: The Most Important Election in 160 Years
Terrorist Attack in Nice, France, Leaves 84 Dead and 202 Injured | New York Times Clinton Losing On Honesty In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll Finds | Quinnipiac University Why Putin Loves BREXIT | New York Times Events in Nice, France, underscore the fact that the U.S. presidential election of 2016 may be the most important election since Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860. At stake … Read More
Women of the Moment at the Moment
According to a recent business study by Morgan Stanley Capital International, companies with three or more women in leadership roles enjoyed a greater return on equity per year versus companies with less diversity. The study, and many others like it, shows that a diversification of ideas among groups increases the probability of managing and completing goals successfully. Studies like this one are of great value to our nation’s future because … Read More
Picks of the Week: Turn Down the Rhetoric
Donald Trump Pushes Conspiracy Theory that Obama Supports ISIS | ABC News Suspected Killer of British Lawmaker had ties to Neo-Nazi Group, Watchdog Says | Washington Post Pat Robertson: Gays & Islamists are Allies so ‘Let Them Kill Themselves’ | Right Wing Watch The flames of political passion are burning white-hot. Some have questioned the survival of the nation. Others have said the stakes cut to the core of a people’s identity. For … Read More
Picks of the Week: Trump’s Worldview
The Kremlin’s Candidate: In the 2016 Election, Putin’s propaganda network is picking sides | Politico Transcript: Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech | New York Times Trump’s ‘America First’ has ugly echoes from U.S. history | CNN Donald Trump, the businessman turned Republican presidential candidate, gave his first foreign policy speech of the campaign this week, invoking the long-discredited language of “America First,” and suggesting that as president he would reconsider … Read More
Intersectionality and the Presidential Race
Intersectionality is a term which has existed for roughly 35 years, however, most people in the United States have not engaged with the concept outside of a classroom until recent memory. The term resurfaced recently as a reaction to the Flint Water Crisis and through its engagement in debate by the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. As a result, public discourse questioning the legitimacy of intersectional politics … Read More
Picks of the Week: Cybersecurity Lacking from 2016 Campaign Trail
Clinton’s Emails Drown out Cyber Debate | The Hill Election 2016 Why Every Candidate Should Be Talking Cybersecurity | Secure World Hillary Clinton Email Scandal ‘Very Serious,’ Says Bernie Sanders | Reuters While Hillary Clinton continues to face scrutiny for her email practices and the use of a private server during her tenure as Secretary of State, few of the 2016 Presidential candidates have discussed the more serious cybersecurity issues affecting the nation. Securing … Read More
Election 2016 and the Pell Center
If the election calendar holds, it’s less than one-year until Iowa holds it caucuses on January 18, 2016, the first round in a fifty state marathon to select the Democratic and Republican nominees for president. Already, the press is focused on the horse race: who’s up, who’s down, who’s surging, who’s fading. Will Hillary Clinton face any meaningful opposition? Will Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush split centrist Republicans and clear … Read More