Over at Just Security, Ryan Goodman analyzesUN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson’s claim that states owe the same privacy protections to non-nationals abroad as to their own citizens at home in conducting broad surveillance programs. Emmerson had written.
There are many sources of uncertainty in election polling other than sampling error. One source of error that looms large in this year's closest races is undecided voters -- people who say they are going to vote, but don't know (or won't say) which candidate they prefer.
And so, after all the crosstalk, data-crunching, tealeaf-reading and plain-old speculation (present company included), we leave it to the voting public to tell us the composition of next year’s Congress and state governments.
One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to have a photo identification are just attempts to suppress black voting.
Tomorrow is Election Day. The following examines this year’s top races across California making predictions of the outcomes using Political Data, Inc’s valuable vote-by-mail (VBM) data and information from the Secretary of State.
Republicans and Democrats have little occasion to agree on anything in these toxic times. Nowhere are their differences more acute than on health-care policy.
The wise Walter Pincus had a good piece yesterday in the WP that makes two points: (1) the United States’ fight “against the so-called Islamic State has just begun and will last for years,” and (2) “Iraqi boots on the ground are the only ones that can defeat the Islamic State in Iraq.
As a Californian in a state so tilted in one political direction that few bother to run ads here, I am spared what a friend from Wisconsin, a major battleground state, describes as an endless barrage of political ads and messages this year.
This is the opening paragraph of "What's Wrong with the Taylor Rule?" by San Jose State University economics professor Jeffrey Rogers Hummel. It's one of the two Featured Articles for November's Econlib.
The election and reelection of Barack Obama have seemingly realized the progressive dream of transforming America from its traditional Constitutional order to one more similar to Europe’s.
California voters may not care enough to go to the polls tomorrow. A very low turnout’s expected. But outside interests have cared enough to spend tens of millions of dollars.
Classical scholar, historian and conservative columnist Victor Davis Hanson said the Obama administration’s foreign policy has overturned a 70-year “postwar world order” of U.S.-led engagement in peacekeeping and policing around the world.
If there’s one consistent theme in this year’s midterm election, it’s that no one trusts the polls. That’s made it difficult to figure out how close some of the hottest races are this year.
One year after the University debuted its first massive open online courses (MOOCs), professors and students have varying thoughts on how they compare to traditional classes.
As I was looking down the ballot the other day, one thing jumped out at me : The relatively high number of first-time candidates for statewide offices in this year’s relatively sleepy election.
The United States faces major cyber threats but according to the director of the NSA, the intelligence community has to overcome major hurdles to protect it, from dealing with the demands of privacy advocates to the inability to pay Silicon Valley-level salaries.
