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Is democracy for sale?
By Christopher B. Daly A hat-tip to NPR. As a public service, NPR has compiled a list of the individuals and corporations who have donated $1 million or more to political campaigns or SuperPACs during...
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Politics: Bad for business?
By Christopher B. Daly If business executives and the titans of finance are so good at investing, why do they do so poorly in investing in politicians? Clearly, big business and Wall Street went...
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Math for journalists (and everyone else too)
By Christopher B. Daly In the wake of last week’s election, many Republicans seems to be facing not only a political problem but also an epistemological one. Epistemology is the term philosophers use...
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Follow the money (cont.)
By Christopher B. Daly Is political spending the same as political speech? Does it deserve the same constitutional protections? Is there anything that can be done to undo the 2010 Citizens United...
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Why I am a Democrat
Why I am a Democrat By Christopher B. Daly It’s not because of the “gifts” that I supposedly get from the government, if we are to believe the recent confidential statements by Mitt Romney. Luckily, I...
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To: John Boehner From: Chris Daly Date: Dec 21 (the day after you lost a vote in your own House) The first rule of legislative leadership: Always count the votes. When I worked as a reporter covering...
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In China’s censorship struggle, who’s a liberal?
By Christopher B. Daly The struggle over censorship continues in China. While it plays out, American journalists are struggling over political nomenclature. This has been a problem since early in the...
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Math for journalists (cont.)
By Christopher B. Daly In their own words, Republican strategists explain one of the superficially puzzling results of the 2012 election: The total vote for all Republican candidates for the U.S....
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Should corporations enjoy free speech?
By Christopher B. Daly For no good reason, our laws (both legislative and the common-law, judge-made type) have been moving in a while in the direction of recognizing corporations as “persons” and...
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AP phone scandal
A hat-tip to Jack Ohman, editorial cartoonist at the Sacramento Bee. Oh, man, did he nail this one: (I just don’t know why he had to depict the AP “desk man” as an out-of-shape, stressed white guy...
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Mass. Senate race: another private equity guy gives it a try
By Christopher B. Daly In Massachusetts, we are having a special Senate race to fill the seat vacated by veteran Democrat John Kerry when he became president Obama’s Secretary of State. The race...
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Whitey Bulger: Life without parole
By Christopher B. Daly In the end, the sentencing of James “Whitey” Bulger was oddly unsatisfying. Bulger – the lord of the underworld, the big man with the killer’s coldness, the guy who struck...
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Fun with maps: A U.S. map with equal pop.s
What if the United States still had 50 states but they all had a roughly equal population? It might look something like this fantastic map, drawn by mapmaker Neil Freeman. From Pocono to Shasta, from...
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Money & Politics: spending is not the same as speaking
By Christopher B. Daly Today’s report about the influence of money in politics is the inevitable progeny of the 2010 Citizens United ruling. One of the worst parts of that ruling was the deep...
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Surveillance State (cont): Snowden: Why build a big haystack?
By Christopher B. Daly Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who divulged the secret surveillance that the agency conducts on innocent American civilians, made a good point in his recent “public...
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Math for journalists (Koch edition): Free spending is not free speech
By Christopher B. Daly Kudos to The New Republic for this takedown of a recent Wall Street Journal editorial. The Murdoch newspaper was trying to gin up sympathy for the Koch brothers, the fossil-fuel...
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Inside the meme factory: GOP discovers “imperial presidency”
By Christopher B. Daly In today’s NYTimes, a story purports to have discovered a trend among Republican congressmen, who are depicted as suddenly deciding to accuse President Obama of creating an...
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A pox on “A pox on both their houses”
By Christopher B. Daly I spend a lot of my waking hours at the intersection of Journalism and History, two empirical fields that share a lot of DNA. It’s an interesting place to hang out, and I wish...
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New media outlet in New Hampshire
By Christopher B. Daly Welcome to the news business to the latest wealthy businessman seeking to have a role in politics through the media. The newest member of the club is Bill Binnie, the founder of...
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Monday media roundup (the Tuesday edition)
By Christopher B. Daly Just wrapping up the spring semester, so I’ve been a little busier than usual. With apologies for the delay, here’s a rdp of recent developments and commentary about the news...
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