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Reeher weighs in on race for governor, health coverage in NY in Press Republican

According to Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, the push for a single payer health system has gained traction as a "symbolic" issue for some Democrats who want to have a "positive alternative message" to efforts by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to dismantle Obamacare.

August 9, 2018

From Africa to America

Michael Boulware Moore heads efforts to build a new museum on slave-trade hallowed ground in Charleston.

August 8, 2018

Keck weighs in on Supreme Court impact on electoral politics in Associated Press

"Over the long course of time, the court follows broader political trends," says Thomas Keck, professor of political science and Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics. "But it doesn’t tend to turn as quickly as the elected branches" of government. Keck was interviewed for the Associated Press article "Could hard-right Supreme Court haunt GOP? History says maybe." 
August 8, 2018

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