In The News: Department of Political Science
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton basked in a diplomatic "Moscow Spring," seizing on Vladimir Putin's break from the presidency to help seal a nuclear arms-control treaty and secure Russia's acquiescence to a NATO-led military intervention in Libya. When Putin returned to the top job, things changed.
Both major candidates running to represent Nevada’s 4th Congressional District embody different aspects of an expansive and diverse district.
Both major candidates running to represent Nevada’s 4th Congressional District embody different aspects of an expansive and diverse district.
A funny thing happened to the local political scene on the way out of this year’s presidential caucuses.
Fifteen years after they concluded that gun control was a losing issue for them, Democrats say it’s time for a rethink, convinced that a spate of mass shootings has changed the politics and left Americans clamoring for action.
Maria Mendoza, a Mexican-born hotel housekeeper, was out of work and worried about supporting her two daughters when she said she attended a job fair about six years ago and glimpsed her future in a gold-windowed, 64-story hotel just off the Las Vegas Strip. Its name alone sold her.
Since announcing his candidacy for president, Donald Trump has called Mexicans "rapists" and "criminals." He supports deporting as many as 11 million unauthorized immigrants. He has blamed Hispanics for taking American jobs and vowed to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.
The young woman standing in front of a cardboard cutout of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said she registered to vote this year to keep her family intact.
In her first speech as Britain’s new prime minister, Theresa May spoke to her country’s working-class families and pledged to build a “better Britain” for them.
New national polling from an immigration reform group released on Monday showed Latino voters more engaged in this election than in 2012.
Things aren’t looking too hot for Clark County Republicans after the secretary of state’s office released its monthly voter registration statistics Friday.
Former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto easily won Tuesday night’s Democratic primary to set-up a showdown in November against U.S. Rep. Joe Heck for Harry Reid's U.S. Senate seat.