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Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, Stories We Tell, Part 2, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Being told by your mom that you’re a child of violence is unsettling. Then, learning that it happened when you were still a baby on a blanket, which is to say having just learned to sit, though not walk, talk, or […]
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, Todd the Train Wreck – Why Meet the Press Is So Feeble, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Train wreck? It’s CHUCK TODD* again — and I’d like to put a red circle with a slash on top of him. He says his friends, etc. . . . as both guests (who cares who they are, almost since they are proxies or tiny […]
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, Post Process, on the site Professor Ruth O'Brien (ruthobrien.org) 2 weeks, 6 days ago

I alter between 4 platforms rather than scheduling things since I like spontaneity – real time commentary.

Here are all my platforms and for the authors too that publish in my two book series in addition to […]
Ruth O'Brien wrote a new post, "Hypo" Crit Repubs in Replacing Notorious RBG, on the site RuthOBrien.org 1 month ago

Hypo: a large animal that is ugly and looks like an American politician or a SLAM or SCAM — a “role model” (taken from MTP, allowing GOP from Wyoming to speak and allows him to keep propa […]
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) 8 months, 2 weeks 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 2 years, 1 month 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, 7 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, 7 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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’ […]
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Ruth O'Brien

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