What Can Polling Tell Us about the Presidential Election?
Error in polling leading up to the 2020 presidential election was the highest in 40 years; nearly every forecast greatly underestimated President Trump’s popularity and the percentage of the national vote he would receive. While a majority…
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People Before Highways: How American Roads Tore Apart Neighbourhoods
With the advent of the American Interstate Highway System (IHS), American society was ushered into a new millenium and experienced a level of connectedness never before witnessed. American suburbia thrived and automobiles to hold of…
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MIR Meets: Clarissa Ward
Host Sabrina Nelson sits down with Clarissa Ward, award-winning journalist and Chief International Correspondent for CNN, to discuss her international reporting career across the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe, her views on journalism…
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MIR Meets: Bob Rae
Host Sabrina Nelson sits down with Bob Rae, ambassador and permanent representative of Canada to the United Nations, to discuss Canada’s role in the UN and multilateralism, the future and challenges of international governance, his domestic…
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Education Policy and the U.S. Presidential Election
United States presidential campaigns have a history of centring K-12 education policy—something that has been markedly missing from both the Democratic and Republican platforms for the 2024 election. The Biden administration has focused…
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MIR Meets: Kelley Vlahos
Host Theo Shouse sits down with Kelley Vlahos, editorial director of Responsible Statecraft and former executive editor of The American Conservative, to discuss US foreign policy and the emergence of the restraint movement, which opposes…
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Harris and Trump on Climate Policy
In 2021, the United States rejoined the Paris Agreement, committing to an international fight to limit global temperatures to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted that while such an…
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Immigration Takes Centre Stage in U.S. Presidential Election
Viewers of the September 10 presidential debate might remember when Donald Trump falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting people’s pets to eat them. This shift to more radical and dangerous rhetoric reflects a move…
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US Election 2024: Evangelicals and Trump with Melissa Deckman
Host Alex Ritch sits down with political scientist Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, to discuss how religion, particularly evangelical Christianity, could affect the 2024 presidential election.
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Trump vs. Harris on the Ukraine War
As the 2024 US Presidential election draws nearer, the two candidates’ differing approaches to the Ukraine War constitute a stark divide for American voters to evaluate. The policies of the two potential administrations clash on more…
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