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KATHLEEN
KNIGHT
Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Barnard College and Columbia
On
mass media and American politics in 2005:
1) The Supreme Court's decision not to review the Cooper and Miller cases, as well as Bob Woodward's admission that a senior Bush administration official talked about CIA agent Valerie Plame—proving the need for better enforcement of whistleblower laws so that public officials take responsibility for their disagreements.
2) Public disgust with political corruption.
3) Confirmation of Roberts and Alito—making a total of five Catholics on the Supreme Court.
What's ahead?
1) Young women will start trading Plan B, RU-486 and other abortion pills.
2) Corruption will be the main theme of the 2006 election, with the Republicans engaging in the counterstrategy of trying to prove that Democrats are too unpredictable to trust.
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Source of Inspiration in 2005 The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, by Russell Shorto, opens up new perspectives on non-English sources of representative government—in this case, of the Dutch/United Provinces. |