Learning Politics

After years of apathy, I've decided to start learning about the confusing world of politics. I don't have a party to call my own or a strong stance on many major issues, but I do have a blog to document my journey!

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Getting in Early to Find a Niche

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For several months now we've been in that awkward part of the presidential campaign where it's pretty clear that several prominent c...

Monday, January 19, 2015

At What Price Scalise?

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Congressman Steve Scalise of Lousiana has recently gotten himself into the news for the wrong reasons. It has been revealed that in 2002 th...

Saturday, January 17, 2015

The Long Embargo

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The United States' recent restoration of full diplomatic relations with Cuba marked the end of five decades of enmity. Though the Unit...

Saturday, March 8, 2014

The Inevitability of Hillary

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The 2016 US presidential campaign has begun -- we just don't realize it yet. The candidacy announcements, campaign stops, and debates a...

Monday, March 3, 2014

Preventing Putin

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There is an "Amerocentric" view of foreign policy that inhabits American political thinking and comes in two different strains. T...

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Obama and Putin in a Post-Foreign Policy Era

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The Cold War was an extraordinary period in American history in that the perceived ideological threat posed by Communism and the perceived e...

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Respect for the Gridlockian

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With control of Congress divided between the two parties, not much is happening in Washington, DC at the moment. Most people don't seem...

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