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Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, Mananlyzing in Stereo: Land, Localization of National Politics, or Should I Call the Feds for an Eviction?, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 6 months ago

American Political Development is history at its worst. At least, that’s what some historians who reside in the United States and teach in American history might say about our field — it’s “prese […]
Ruth O'Brien replied to the topic Perspectives: A CUNY TV Digital Series in the forum Post-Election Working Group via email 1 year, 10 months ago

Dear Luke,

I’m on sabbatical from the GC this term. Otherwise I’d be delighted. Also, I wrote a book on the presidency and Obama (U of Chicago) so I love discussing elections in my seminars. I’m teaching 2 in American .Politics at the Grad Center next term.

Cheers,

Ruth
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Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, Caught— Maddow Features David Cay Johnston’s Trump Taxes Find, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 3 years, 4 months ago

David Cay Johnston does it again. That is, he investigates hard facts that someone will have to “alter” (make fake again). It must be exhausting for Kellyanne Conway, the most powerful woman in the United Sta […]
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, He Who Recuses Himself Accuses Himself, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 3 years, 4 months ago

My family and I don’t communicate with our realtor. Does this mean the realtor won’t get us a marketable — what the market won’t bear — price?

Neither, he tells us, does Jared Kushner talk with anyone at his fa […]
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Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, Seminar Descriptions for Spring 2017 @ GC, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 3 years, 8 months ago

4 SEMINARS for Spring 2017, Political Science Program, Mondays (with exception of Short Course on Wednesdays)

1. American Political Development – 35248 – P SC 82210 – 0

35248 CRN

Graduate Ce […]
Ruth O'Brien joined the group Post-Election Working Group 3 years, 8 months ago
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, Let’s Look at It as Presidents in Mirror-Opposite Conversation, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 3 years, 8 months ago

Putting aside the Democrats’ reassessment — or the irony that it’s not the GOP that has to open its tent — and putting aside that we’re no longer a polarized nation . . . and that a realignment of sorts occurred […]
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, MEDIA, MATTERS: WHY NOT TAKE CONTEXT (ATTENDANCE), PLEASE, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 4 years, 5 months ago

Politics is all theater. Aristotle could have told me that had I not been ignorant about his writings in high school, when I had the good fortune (I thought back then) of interviewing Ronald Reagan, who was […]
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMPs Obamacare?, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 4 years, 6 months ago

Donald J. Trump is redefining things — and not just the race for the Republican nomination. As a celebrity centrist, Trump told one of the Sunday shows that he plans on changing the lines. “The lines,” he repeat […]
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, CHEERLEADERS & SECRET WEAPONS, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 4 years, 6 months ago

Fantastic visual, so forgive me for being tired of the “revolutionary” binary (e.g. HC as establishment)

.No doubt Bernie can teach democratic socialism to the idealists of our age (the youth), but it’ […]
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, Beep-Beep – WILE E. CRUZ & HIS ACME ELECTION MACHINE, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 4 years, 6 months ago

So Ted Cruz was “despondent” about the prospect of gay marriage, but now he is indifferent to LGBTQers?

Cruz is a flip-flopping ideologue who reminds one of Roadrunner’s coyote. Watch out for fa […]
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, Kinder, Gentler Neotribalism, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 4 years, 6 months ago

Unicorns, not wives, rule. The 19th amendment puzzles pollsters because wives follow husbands. Hillary did (to Arkansas). Wives don’t lead husbands, supposedly. And there is no city of women in New Hamp […]
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, Her Mother’s Womb; & Scary Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 4 years, 8 months ago

“We are losing the white male vote in droves,” said former Democratic New Mexico governor Bill Richardson. And the issue is — wait for it — “economic inequality.”

How does this Bill, a hopeful Latino presi […]
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, CONGRESSIONAL CLIPS TO REMEMBER, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 4 years, 9 months ago

Before you hear the “news” tonight, or watch your late-night nightly satire – here are a couple of clips for comparison with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s morning-to-afternoon professional perform […]
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Ruth O'Brien

Politics Professor, Author-Out of Many, One: Obama and the Third American Political Tradition