From President Donald Trump’s tweets, to congressional gridlock, investigations about Russia’s potential meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and, yes, a comedian’s standup routine at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the political scene is inherently anger-inducing. Indeed, in an era defined by intense partisan divisions where the logic of negative […] Read more »
Kathleen Hall Jamieson in Conversation with Marty Kaplan
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center, won the 2018 Ev Rogers Award. In this concise discussion, she and Norman Lear Center Director Marty Kaplan cover V.D. (viral deception), “fake” news, truth, comm theory, Trump, Putin, and much […] Read more »
Is the United States Too Big to Govern?
Last month the Pew Research Center released a poll showing that Americans are losing faith in their system of government. Only one-fifth of adults surveyed believe democracy is working “very well” in the United States, while two-thirds say “significant changes” are needed to governmental “design and structure.” The 2016 election […] Read more »
Most voters have become numb to each new Trump scandal because they don’t believe what he says anyway
If you’re waiting for news that President Donald Trump lied about Stormy Daniels to alter his election-year standing, stop. … The president’s legal jeopardy seized this week’s headlines. Exposure of specific falsehoods concerning the Daniels case scandalized even Trump-friendly quarters of the political world, drawing condemnations from Fox News and […] Read more »
The president and his attorney didn’t tell the truth. Now Giuliani has. Will that change anything?
Does it bother anyone that President Trump has been caught lying? Does it bother anyone that this is not new? Does it bother anyone that the president has been shown to be a liar? These questions are again front and center before the country. People will answer them differently, depending […] Read more »
Republicans who think Trump is untruthful still approve of him
Most Republicans who think President Donald Trump is loose with the truth still approve of the job he’s doing as president, a new NBC News|SurveyMonkey online poll shows. CONT. NBC News Read more »