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Next Tuesday, the U.S. midterm elections will take place. The party in the White House usually suffers defeat and loses control of Congress. The reason for this is often the so-called enthusiasm gap: the voters of the party out of power are more motivated to turn out than those from

CHICAGO—The Republic of France has promoted Chicagoan Dr. Carla Knorowski to the rank of Officer in its National Order of Merit (L’Ordre National Du Mérite). The award was bestowed upon Knorowski by Consul General of the Midwest in Chicago, Mr. Yannick Tagand, at a private ceremony at The Fortnightly of

Great Britain is in deep trouble, and political historian William S. Bike does not have high hopes for the government of Prime Minister Liz Truss to pull the kingdom out of it. But Bike, aurhor of the book Winning Political Campaigns, does offer a solution that the United Kingdom has not

On my last spa day, I told my wellness buddy that I am currently reading the book On the House by John Boehner. “John who?” he asked me.John Boehner was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from January 2011 until October 2015, and in that position, he was the

The book The Forgotten 1970 Chicago Cubs: Go and Glow has won an Award of Excellence from Communications Concepts in the Print Media-Books category in the organization’s Apex 2022 competition.“Chicago Cubs baseball fans always will remember the beloved 1969 team, yet the 1970 Cubs are, in many ways, more fascinating,”

I don’t mean to make a moral statement here about the various allegations against Boris Johnson. Much more, I look at the situation with the cold tools of the political scientist, respectively through the lens of the Machiavellian spin doctor.To begin with, the case of Boris Jonson is yet another

I have learned a general rule about the effectiveness of feedback meetings whenever I present results of a survey or a focus group to a client: the fewer people in the room, the more productive the meeting will be. The higher up in the hierarchy the client is positioned (when

The French voters have rendered their verdict. Emmanuel Macron has won a second term, an accomplishment which the previous two presidents, François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy failed to achieve. In fact, the last incumbent president to win reelection was Jacques Chirac twenty years ago. I also find it noteworthy that

I have written numerous times on my blog about the fact that money is overestimated in election campaigns. Do you remember anything, an ad or tagline, from Mike Bloomberg’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination? Does the name Tom Steyer ring a bell? He’s another wealthy candidate who blew millions

The Republican National Committee’s recent decision to prohibit the GOP’s presidential nominee from participating in debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates is not only a break from tradition, but means the end of presidential debates between Democratic and Republican candidates, said political expert William S. Bike in a