This week I was asked to comment on U.S.-European relations for MSSU’s school newspaper, The Chart. This got me thinking about how the United States has treated Europe during the Trump Administration and how that might affect Biden’s foreign policy in the region. The America First foreign policy stance was essentially a retreat from the […]
On November 1, 2018 I gave a presentation for the MSSU Nordic Semester. It was on the Varieties of Capitalism literature, specifically differentiating the Nordic Model from other Liberal Market Economies (LMEs) and Coordinated Market Economies (CMEs). I am happy to be a part of the International Semesters at MSSU! You can check out the […]
It is mid-October and the 2018 Midterm elections arrive in just a few weeks on November 6, 2018. The GOP and the Trump Administration need to retain control of Congress to continue to enact their agenda, while the Democrats are desperate to flip either Chamber and start blocking Republican efforts. The entire Political Science Department […]
The recent U.S. election has beeen puzzling for many people. The prediction modelers clearly got it wrong, but many of the national polls had the election within the margin of error. The exit polls are showing something that has been slowly happening for years – white, uneducated, unskilled, men have turned against the Democratic party […]