William Grover
William F. Grover is a professor of political science at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont. He is the co-author (with Joseph G. Peschek) of the new book, The Unsustainable Presidency: Clinton, Bush, Obama and Beyond (December 2014, Palgrave Macmillan).
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Views Sunday, November 29, 2015 Clinton, Sanders and the National Security Credo Responses to the November 13 terrorist attacks by the Islamic State in Paris from U.S. political leaders and the mainstream news media have been predictably bellicose. Unfortunately they serve to reinforce commitment to a self-undermining, 14-year long war on terror that has no terminus in sight... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 03, 2015 Shoes, Trophies, and Bernie Sanders "And understand this: If American workers are being denied their rights to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I’ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I’ll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 17, 2015 The Wild Ride of President-Elect Bernie Sanders "We can elect the best person in the world to be president, but that person will get swallowed up unless there is an unprecedented level of activism at the grassroots level." —Sen. Bernie Sanders Presidential hopeful Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is on a roll. Following his historic late-May campaign... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 04, 2014 Our Imperial System: On How Not to Think About the American Presidency "We are fortunate that, thanks to globalization, policy decisions in the US have been largely replaced by global market forces. National security aside, it hardly makes any difference who will be the next president. The world is governed by market forces." —Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve Chair,... Read more |