Against the Electoral College. It is useful because it lays out all of the common arguments for it as well. Which is helpful for allowing each person to make up their mind about what they think about this institution genuinely speaking. I do a whole week on this americansry few understand the full extent of the process. If you take a course on the american presidency should probably walk away understanding how this process is used to select how our chief executive officer works. Also because of how it structures have elections turns out. Just like how we started our discussion on president ial nominations by talking about the history and processes and a deep dive into the process rules, the rule nominations today. We should start a president ial election the same way by taking on how we select a president. Youre reading for this week was George C Edwards book on why the Electoral College is bad for america. It is in its third edition, after all. In the book, edwards explains how the El
Im richard mcculley. Todays talk is the last of 2014. A year when weve really been treated to some splendid presentations by some of the centers most significant researchers. That said, we end the year with a bang by hosting todays guest who will discuss his significant and timely book, making the modern american fiscal state law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation, 18771929. Published by Cambridge University press. We will resume this talk on january 15 when we host rebecca edwards, professor of history. Her talk is titled, sex on the frontier fertility in americas antebellum empire. Rebecca edwards is a very eminent historian who would you would expect to get quite but a presentation of that title, i think this is something they cannot be missed. Professor mehrotra is the associate dean for research, professor of law. A fellow at Indiana University. He received his j. D. At Georgetown University law center and his ph. D. At the university of chicago. He has served as the c
Brown claims hes innocent. I know exactly whats happening a person whom i trusted has been trying for weeks to get me in trouble but i have nothing to do with this. Police say the New Hampshire native has been living in south america for more than a decade. Brown could also be facing charges in the u. S. As well. Turning now to the forecast the holiday lights are out but were talking about a winter warmup. December meets spring and Storm Tracker meteorologist rob eicher not out of the question we could see 60 degrees on saturday. I think well see at least a you few 60 degrees on the map. Got up to 58 at least this afternoon in boston. In fact those numbers more typical of what we see in midon to late october than the middle part of december. Currently sitting at 50 degrees in boston enough of a wind to prevent any fog there. Temperature also dip back into the upper 40s in the boston area. In southern New Hampshire winds have been a little bit lighter but not expecting it to be nearly a
was doing, the country taking the world so deep into the world s ultimate nightmare? an interesting thing i read last night is a piece in the washington post by my friend michael dobbs, who covered the soviet union and written a book on the cuban missile privacy. on the eve of the cuban missile crisis, president kennedy was reading a book about donald trump is saying what s a strong, rhetorical way of saying the north koreans i mean it, a very different mindset. i hope that people will say to the president you need to take this in a very sober way. this is about nuclear war. maybe you can get john