As Trump hostility to Mueller’s investigation heats up, can he actually shut it down? On Politics And Polls, I talk to Fordham Law professor and Trump-investigation expert Jed Shugerman about fail-safes that Mueller may have put in place, and legal theories of the case. Listen to the new Politics & Polls! Oh, and in case [...]
Entries Tagged as 'U.S. Institutions'
Politics and Polls: Can Trump Actually Shut Down the Mueller Investigation?
March 22nd, 2018, 4:45pm by Sam Wang
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Fall Football Lecture: Can Math Help Fix Bugs in Democracy?
November 11th, 2017, 12:14pm by Sam Wang
During college football season, the Princeton Alumni Association hosts fall lectures for people who come back to campus for the home games. This morning I gave the pregame lecture for the Yale game. My topic: can math help repair partisan gerrymandering and the Electoral College? Great audience, great questions. There is no video available. However, [...]
Tags: President · Princeton · Redistricting · U.S. Institutions
Making Every Vote Count: Election reform and the National Popular Vote Compact
October 7th, 2017, 11:02am by Sam Wang
.@SamWangPhD was great. He calculates that 1/3 of future POTUS elections will put loser of popular vote in WH, giving 5 states huge power. https://t.co/A8c8h0bYKK — Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 7, 2017 This morning I was on CNN (watch it here) with Mike Smerconish to talk about replacing the Electoral College with a national popular [...]
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Amicus Brief in Gill v. Whitford
August 30th, 2017, 10:39pm by Sam Wang
Today I filed a brief in the S.Ct. gerrymandering case with some of the best elections scholars in the country. https://t.co/2Wm43rrnEK — Heather Gerken (@GerkenHeather) August 31, 2017 Today we submitted our amicus brief (read the PDF) in the case of Gill v. Whitford. The authors are Heather Gerken, Jonathan N. Katz, Gary King, Larry Sabato, [...]
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Benjamin Wittes on Politics & Polls
July 13th, 2017, 4:52pm by Sam Wang
Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare joined Julian Zelizer and me today on Politics & Polls. He gave us an unsparing look at potential crimes & what the Trump-Russia scandal looks like to the national-security community. Listen: http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/politics-polls-51-trump-russia-story-benjamin-wittes
Tags: President · Princeton · U.S. Institutions
Politics & Polls: Falling Toward Pavement
May 18th, 2017, 1:31pm by Sam Wang
Washington has been hit with a trifecta of catastrophic events in the past week: Trump fires FBI director Comey for investigating Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, then Trump tells secrets to the Russians in the Oval Office, then it emerges that Comey writes memos about all his conversations, including Trump trying to obstruct the [...]
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General Petraeus: “This is fine”?
April 13th, 2017, 4:15pm by Sam Wang
For Politics & Polls #39, we were joined by Woodrow Wilson alumnus General David Petraeus. Is the “deep state” a sinister conspiracy, or an institution that prevents insane policies? As Trump brings Syria, North Korea, and Afghanistan to a boil, is it good or bad to have ex-military serve at the highest levels of government? [...]
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Post-November Optimism Crashes After Failure of ACA Repeal
April 4th, 2017, 5:03pm by Sam Wang
Light posting these last few months. Spring term is busy. But hey, there’s always the podcast, which is not bad. Today I post this somewhat underappreciated survey quantity, the right-track/wrong-track question. It asks whether respondents think the United States is on the right track or wrong track. This survey has been in consistently negative territory for [...]
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Politics & Polls #36: Science, Politics, and the War on Knowledge
March 23rd, 2017, 4:41pm by Sam Wang
A President who denies that CO2 causes climate change, and who believes the falsehood that vaccines cause autism. A climate change denier at the Environmental Protection Agency. No national science adviser. And deep cuts are proposed to the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy, and other research programs. What’s going on? Julian Zelizer [...]
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Politics & Polls #35: Intellectual Foundations of the Trumpist Movement
March 19th, 2017, 3:32pm by Sam Wang
In the summer of 2015, Julius Krein started an online blog called the Journal of American Greatness. A bit tongue-in-cheek at the time, it has morphed into something more serious: a journal called American Affairs. Julian Zelizer and I find out from Krein what he thinks are the defensible intellectual pillars of Trumpism. Amazingly, one [...]
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