ArticlesPutin’s Long-Term Strategy in Syria (‘Foreign Affairs’)Date3/17/2016Body Putin’s “mission accomplished” statement got the world’s attention, writes Dartmouth’s Steven Simon in a Foreign Affairs opinion piece about...
ArticlesQuoted: Brendan Nyhan on the Triggers for TrumpismDate3/15/2016Body “Mr. Trump’s harsh language has in turn attracted widespread support from whites with hostile views toward immigrants and minority groups,”...
ArticlesDartmouth Analysts Break Down the Super Tuesday ResultsDate3/2/2016Body Although a majority of the Democratic and Republican convention delegates are still up for grabs, the results of the Super Tuesday primaries...
ArticlesQuoted: Brendan Nyhan on Politics and Climate ChangeDate2/25/2016Body “The broader underlying issue is that the scientific world has been surprised at the failure of facts to change people’s beliefs,” says...
ArticlesQuoted: Steve Simon on Why U.S. Shouldn’t Fight Assad RegimeDate2/21/2016Body “At this stage, the U.S. is no more likely than it ever was to intervene as a combatant directly against the regime because the obligation...
ArticlesDartmouth Scholars: Obama’s Duty Is to Nominate a JusticeDate2/16/2016Body President Obama has a constitutional duty to nominate a new Supreme Court justice following the death last week of Justice Antonin Scalia...
ArticlesCampaigns Show the Downside of Dynasties (‘The New York Times’)Date2/8/2016Body In his latest post for the New York Times blog “The Upshot,” Dartmouth’s Brendan Nyhan says the Bush and Clinton campaigns demonstrate how...
ArticlesQuoted: Linda Fowler on Predicting N.H. Primary ResultsDate2/7/2016Body “Sometimes they step on the gas pedal, sometimes they step on the brake for candidates coming out of Iowa,” says Linda Fowler, a professor...
ArticlesAre the Media Killing the N.H. Primary? (‘The Conversation’)Date2/3/2016Body The current election cycle has seen more and earlier media-sponsored polls than ever before—and that may be sending the century-old New...
ArticlesQuoted: Joseph Bafumi on What Polls Do, and Do Not, RevealDate2/2/2016Body “Turnout is so important that polls are never going to get it exactly right. If they do, they were lucky. We can’t know when we conduct a...