Is the presidency too powerful? Tracing the evolution of presidential power, this reading list provides the history, laws, and politics behind how wide-ranging presidential powers can and should be.
By Joseph Campbell, author of Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections This post was originally published on The Conversation and is reprinted here with permission. Pollsters indulged in …
Excerpted from American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford by Roland De Wolk The origins of the Stanford campus and the Silicon Valley it has incubated, borne, and sustained could not …
Happy Ramadan! Celebrate with a look into the lives of thirty notable figures who shaped the world’s second-largest religion, from the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed …
Drawing on the long tradition in Muslim scholarship of commemorating in writing the biographies of notable figures, Chase F. Robinson weaves ambitious lives together to create a rich narrative of Islamic civilization, …