Posts By James Sheridan
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Political Education
Bad Guy
You need people like me so you can point your f*****’ fingers and say, ‘That’s the bad guy.’ So…what that make you?...
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Political Education
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
President Trump released a list of potential Supreme Court picks on September 9th that includes the United States senator from Arkansas, Tom...
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Elections
Donald Trump’s Front Porch Campaign
‘Joe Biden’s Front Porch Campaign‘ looked at the necessity of the Biden campaign keeping all participants safe during the pandemic. The semi-quarantining...
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Political Education
Talking with Conspiracy Theorists
Historian Richard Hofstadter wrote “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” in 1964. Hofstadter used the word ‘paranoid’ in a non-clinical sense because...
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Elections
Whither the Republican Party?
Mark Twain is reputed to have said “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes”. The way conservatives have dealt with today’s...
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Political Education
The Lottery
“The Lottery“, is a short story by horror and mystery writer Shirley Jackson. It was published by The New Yorker magazine in...
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Elections
Joe Biden’s Cold War
A Biden Administration may have to move towards the type of international policies that the United States engaged in during the Cold...
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Elections
Heat vs Light
Gotcha questions. Sound bites. Pre-planned zingers. Softball questions. It doesn’t have to be this way. Debates need not be moderated by news...
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Elections
Joe Biden’s Front Porch Campaign
A ‘front porch’ campaign is one in which a presidential candidate makes speeches and greets visitors from or near the candidate’s home....
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Political Education
Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals
Under the current administration, we have seen large and sustained marches for movements such as women’s rights and the Black Lives Matter....