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What’s the Matter with the South?
Posted by: Mark Joseph Stern
On October 6th, 1971, John A. Wilkinson and Lorraine Mary Turner got married. The event is largely forgotten today, as Wilkinson and Turner were two normal people who, by all accounts, went on to lead a normal life together. Their marriage would be entirely unremarkable but for the fact that it was the first legal interracial marriage to be performed in North Carolina since the state outlawed the practice in 1715. North Carolina was not the only state to be hosting such novel weddings around this time. After the landmark Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia declared all anti-miscegenation laws [...]
Romney begins VP search
Posted by: Matt Sarge
Presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, has begun the search for potential vice-presidential candidates. He announced that he has put Beth Meyers, who had served as his Chief of Staff during his time as governor of Massachusetts, in charge of leading the process. At this point, potential choices for Romney’s running mate are purely speculative, and depend on what criteria he and his team are emphasizing. Vice-presidential candidates are often chosen to help in the electoral math, to help swing a specific state or a specific demographic. Running mates can also be used to fill a gap in the presidential [...]
Ezra Klein’s Bold Proposal to Fix Washington
Posted by: Tobi Kraft
On Thursday, noted Washington Post columnist and blogger Ezra Klein gave a speech at Georgetown entitled “Where Politics and Economics Meet.” In a riveting hour and a half speech and Q&A, Klein touched on a number of hot issues, such as the importance of budgets in keeping politicians at least somewhat honest, as well as what effect the immense sums of money that this year’s presidential candidates are likely to spend will have on the election. However, one of Klein’s most provocative and incisive ideas came near the end of his appearance, when he offered a bold proposal for addressing [...]
Ezra Klein on November 2012 and the Economy
Posted by: Chris Kraft
On Thursday, April 12, journalist Ezra Klein came to Georgetown to share his thoughts in a talk entitled, “Where Economics and Politics Meet.” Mr. Klein, a prolific blogger and editor of the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, a columnist for Bloomberg, and a contributor to MSNBC, gave his candid, and often humorous, opinion on a variety of issues ranging from the media’s role in the 2012 presidential election to the factors that “will and won’t matter,” in the race for the White House. Klein started by declaring, in one of many wonkish statements, “I completely love budgets,” because they are the one [...]
Santorum Drops Out; Romney (Basically) Wins
Posted by: Medha Chandorkar
After months of mud-slinging, bitter rivalry, and general vileness, it seems the Republican presidential primary race is finally drawing to a close. Yesterday afternoon, Rick Santorum officially withdrew his bid for the presidential nomination. In his speech, Santorum stated that though he was resigning from the race, “we’re not done fighting.” This address was given in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Santorum’s home state and one he publicly stated he was sure of winning. As the Pennsylvania primary drew closer, however, Santorum saw his lead over Romney diminishing rapidly, and many political analysts speculate that Santorum simply didn’t have the funds to compete [...]
The Politics of Panem: What The Hunger Games has to Say about the Modern Political Arena
Posted by: Colleen Creeden
Panem: a leftist dystopia characterized by complete lack of district rights, a systematic and quasi-communistic division of labor, and a centrally planned economy that takes from the people and gives to the government. I can only imagine the conversation in the Santorum household, if he even let his children read the books: “See, kids, what happens when the government takes away your rights? When we create a socialized health care system?” In contrast, to me, the liberally minded reader, Panem was a distraught state governed by an unapologetic national authority that takes from the poor and gives to the rich, [...]
