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Oct 29, 2023 | mcall.com | Christopher Brooks |East Stroudsburg

In a letter Andrew Jackson sent his nephew in 1822, the nation’s seventh president reasoned that “All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuousJudiciary.” How would that virtue be obtained? By directly electing judges, perhaps? Legal scholar Caleb Nelson explained 30 years ago how Jacksonian populists hoped to influence the body politic.

Apr 12, 2023 | mcall.com | Christopher Brooks |East Stroudsburg

We all pay taxes. And we all sometimes ask ourselves, “What is it all for? Where is the money going?”Recent Pennsylvania Senate budget hearings about higher education funding had me and other  Pennsylvania taxpayers asking these very questions, though less about the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education universities than state funding of the state-related schools.

Apr 6, 2023 | eastasiaforum.org | East Stroudsburg |Oyuntugs Davaakhuu |Peter McDonald |Ko Mishima

Author: Ko Mishima, East Stroudsburg UniversityLate prime minister Shinzo Abe left an important mark on Japanese political history. He exercised strong leadership over traditionally independent-minded bureaucrats, though the outcomes of his top-down policy renewals varied. How does Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s leadership compare?