The Elephant in the E-Living Room

The third annual Bulen Symposium on American Politics, held last Monday at IUPUI, was devoted to “epolitics.” The discussion was lively. Depending upon the speaker, we learned that the Internet has lessened (or increased) political participation, is used more by Republicans (or libertarians), circulates devastating (or puerile) political humor, and will replace “butterfly ballots” with reliable electronics (or will enable fraud of hitherto unknown magnitude).
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Health Policy in America

As a population, we tend to be woefully uninformed about public health matters, even as we become more and more obsessed with our individual health and fitness. That lack of information contributes to our failure to achieve consensus on change: we all know the current system isn’t working very well, but we know very little about where and why.
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E Pluribus Unum

On December 2d, IUPUI hosted the first annual Bulen Symposium. It was a remarkable gathering of nationally recognized scholars, journalists and practitioners of the political arts. The purpose of the day-long conference was to examine the health of America’s two major political parties, but one could be forgiven for wondering…
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