Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Jeffrey Cavanaugh is a former MintPress political analyst and columnist specializing in international relations and US policy. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations, specializing in International Security and Conflict. He has worked as a political science and public administration lecturer at Mississippi State University.

The GOP Shows What Fear And Loathing Can Do In An Election Cycle

With Dems largely unlikely to turn out for non-presidential elections, the GOP was able to use a manipulative strategy of fearmongering and playing on people’s ignorance to get its voter base to the polls, eager to “take this country back.”

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作者 Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Reid New Jersey

Unless you are part of the vast majority of Americans who sat out the mid-term elections last Tuesday, it would be hard to miss that the Democrats got clobbered. Like quail flushed from their hiding spots, Democrats fled from their position alongside President Obama, only to find themselves shot down by the brace by well-funded, angry Republicans

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The Right To Vote Shall Not Be Infringed — Or Shall It?

Is the right to vote as much of a right as we think it is? Despite a number of amendments to the Constitution that have expanded access to voting booths, the Constitution still doesn’t approach voting with a positive “one person, one vote” theory.

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作者 Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Voter ID

This election season has been a typical one. Republicans have castigated Democrats and President Barack Obama on the economy, national security and a whole host of other issues, while the Democrats have done the same to them in return. The balance of power in the Senate is up for grabs, though regardless of who controls it not much will get done,

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Catching A Glimpse Of America’s Future In Ferguson

The demographic, cultural and economic changes unfolding in America will eventually leave the country looking a lot like Ferguson today: divided between a rich, white minority establishment and a largely disenfranchised, multi-racial majority.

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作者 Jeffrey Cavanaugh
St. Louis police

On Oct. 12 the good people of Ferguson, Missouri, continued to protest the unjustified shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown by municipal police officer Darren Wilson. Seventeen people were arrested for participating in an unlawful assembly outside a convenience store, and the following day, 50 others were arrested as part of an organized

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Why Conservatives Have Turned Against Education Reform

Conservatives are approaching Common Core as if it were some kind of communist plot intended to put a nail in the coffin of the notion of American exceptionalism by teaching U.S. schoolchildren the facts about history and, worse, science.

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作者 Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Education Summit

Education and education reform have a special place in the hearts of American conservatives. In one issue the forces of the American right are confronted with all the things they hate about America: bureaucracy, unions, failing government, and pointy-headed liberal elites and educated experts who love those first three things. Education, they say,

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ISIS And The Middle East’s Long Con

Two weeks have passed since the United States initiated […]

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作者 Jeffrey Cavanaugh
ISIS fighters parade in a commandeered American Humvee taken from Iraqi security forces down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq (AP Photo)

Two weeks have passed since the United States initiated a war against the group known as the Islamic State and, like clockwork, the obvious has occurred. First, the Islamic State’s advance has been more or less checked where most experts thought it would be: along Iraq’s intra-communal no-mans-land where the country’s Sunni, Kurdish and Shiite

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Post-Heroic America Throws A Temper Tantrum

Like children who cannot understand why they should eat their vegetables, Americans are unhappy with the idea that there are limits we must face up to and confront.

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作者 Jeffrey Cavanaugh
Roadside Memorial

With American bombs falling on yet another Middle Eastern country as this piece goes to press, one can’t but help but be discouraged by the quandary our country has once again gotten itself into. Given how many times we have gone down this route it seems almost pointless to argue against the many obvious drawbacks of resorting to bombing to solve

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L’affaire de Salaita And The Israel Lobby’s Cardboard Castles

How one relatively unknown professor’s dismissal from an unremarkable department at a big state university reflects the weakening pro-Israel lobby.

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作者 Jeffrey Cavanaugh
U of Illinois Professor

In the Land of Lincoln cultural controversy and political corruption are usually confined to Chicago and Springfield, the state capital. After all, this is the state that gave us Hizzoner Richard J. Daley and which has sent four of its past chief executives to prison. Natives have been known to joke that their governors make their license plates,

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