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‘No antidote for bad polls’: Recalling the New York Times’ 1956 election experiment in shoe-leather reporting

In response to national pollsters’ failure in forecasting election outcomes in 1948 and 1952, The New York Times pursued in 1956 a weekslong, multistate exercise in on-the-ground reporting to assess public opinion about the presidential race.

The Conversation

Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions – a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race

Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the nominee, it will ultimately be up to Democratic National Convention delegates to formally select a new nominee for their party. This will mark the first time in over 50…

The Conversation

When was the last time two US presidents faced each other in an election?

As Biden faces Trump – again– for the first time in more than 50 years, Republicans will rerun a candidate who lost a presidential election

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Ozone protection efforts are working

Successful bans on chemicals that eat away the ozone layer demonstrate pollution and climate change is a choice

Salon

Republicans love to bash Kamala Harris going into the 2024 election. Here’s why

WASHINGTON — The 2024 presidential campaign has a new kind of message from Republicans: A vote for Joe Biden, age 80, is a vote for a President Kamala Harris.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Yes, debates do help voters decide – and candidates are increasingly reluctant to participate

Former President Donald Trump’s threat to skip the first Republican presidential debate, scheduled for Aug. 23, 2023, may be a sign that candidate debates will be the next casualty in the highly polarized political environment in the United States.

The Conversation

Newton Minow, ex-FCC chief who famously proclaimed that network television was a ‘vast wasteland,’ dies at 97

Minow, who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, died Saturday at home in Chicago, surrounded by loved ones, his daughter said.

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Newton Minow, former FCC chief and public TV advocate, has died at 97

Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a "vast wasteland," died on Saturday.

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Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97

Former Federal Communications Commission head Newton Minow, who famously described network TV as a “vast wasteland,” has died

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Look back at some of Chicago’s other Democratic National Conventions

The list famous figures who have been nominated in Chicago is impressive — including many who did not win.

Chicago Sun-Times

Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery

My great-uncle Abe Feller was committed to the United Nations. Did Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy break him?

Salon

Adlai Stevenson and the bomb

When most Americans were overdosed on Cold War propaganda, a two-time presidential loser made a difference

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