At some point, the recounts will end, the legal challenges will diminish and the focus will be on what steps President-elect Biden should take to calm the political waters and get his administration off to a clean start.
The president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Mike Petrilli, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the results of the 2020 presidential election, and what it could mean for education in the United States.
I had a long drive Saturday evening which allowed me to listen to the Harris and Biden speeches. Two lines summed up where we may be heading for the next four years.
Donald Trump failed to pull off a 1948-style comeback for four reasons. First, his own campaign against mail-in ballots backfired disastrously. Second, the Libertarian candidate, Jo Jorgensen, took precious votes in key states.
I do not mean to toot my horn, as many other graphs from the model did not look like that. This particular graph did, and really offers a sad interpretation of what's going on. In the model that produced the graph, people and policymakers react to the current death rate in deciding how much risk to take by going out.
Author and economist Steven Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and host of the podcast "People I (Mostly) Admire." He is best known as the co-author, with Stephen Dubner, of Freakonomics. The book, published in 2005, became a phenomenon, selling more than 5 million copies in 40 languages. Levitt talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book's surprising success, the controversy it generated, and how it shaped his career.
A friend of mine in Los Angeles recently took off 10 days to celebrate his birthday and drive up to northern California. To do so, he rented a car and paid just under $300, including tax, for those 10 days. He rented from Enterprise. It was a nice Nissan Altima too, as I noted when he stopped to visit me for coffee on the way up.
On the first Friday of October I laid out the somewhat good news on employment and unemployment for September. This Friday (today), the news is fantastic!
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson analyzes events in the United States as the election drama continues to unfold. Biden looks likely to gain the presidency, but the ultimate winners and losers of this election are still being decided.
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses the close presidential election and what legal challenges/arguments make sense to ensure an accurate vote count/recount.
[Subscription Required] Former Judge Michael McConnell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, argued Carney v. Adams, the first Supreme Court case of the current term, Oct. 5.
Every four years, we hear a familiar refrain from Democrats: Count every vote. It’s a powerful mantra, and it’s hard to argue against. After all, who could object to counting every vote?
After 2016, “a healthy media might have learned from its mistakes, engaged in soul-searching and tried to gain some insights into the working-class coalition that Trump had assembled,” but instead, this year they touted polls that were no more accurate, sighs Reason’s Robby Soave.
[Subscription Required] Speaking at the Berlin Wall in June 1987, President Ronald Reagan famously urged his Soviet counterpart, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
The San Ramon Valley Democratic Club welcomes Professor William Howell of University of Chicago and Professor Terry Moe of Stanford University discuss their book, Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy. The dilemma: is Polarization—Populists feel left out. The question is how to bring them “back into the fold.”
