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The Cambodian Tilt Towards China

05 January, 2017Electoral Intrigues, Entangling Alliances, Southeast Asia, The Middle Kingdom

A map of “Khmer Krom,” territory once dominated by Khmer speakers before it was conquered by Vietnam in the 18th and 19th centuries. Image Source: Douc Sokha, “សហគមន៍ខ្មែរក្រោមថារកឃើញឯកសារជាង៤០០០ទំព័រ ទាក់ទងនឹងការកាត់ទឹកដីកម្ពុជាក្រោមឲ្យវៀតណាម“, Vod Hot News (15 February 2015) Folks, I have a piece up at Foreign Policy on two of my favorite topics–Cambodian politics and China’s international relations. Most analysts see […]

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The Election We All Saw Coming

21 December, 2016Cognition, Electoral Intrigues, Media, Narrative, The Presidency

Image source. Now that the heat of the election season has passed, it is possible to examine the heat itself. The election’s aftermath was a grand spectacle. Some convulsed in desperation and despair. Others surrendered to frenzied, twitter-fueled fits of rapture. In the midst of all this noise, a pattern arose. In simplest terms: there is a […]

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Winning the Popular Vote While Losing Grip on Reality

13 November, 2016By The People, Electoral Intrigues, Media, Narrative, The Presidency

Graphic source: Kevin Urmarcher, Kevin Schaul, and Dan Keating, “These Former Obama Strongholds Sealed the Election for Trump,” Washington Post (9 November 2016). There has been a bit of push back to my last post. A lot of it revolves around this fact: Donald Trump did not win the popular vote. Others point out that […]

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The Time Has Come to Give The Lie

11 November, 2016By The People, Community, Electoral Intrigues, Media, Narrative, The Legislature, The Presidency

Go, Soul, the body’s guest, Upon a thankless errand; Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. —Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Lie,” (c. 1592) A question many of us should be asking: do I […]

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Are You Prepared For November 9th?

05 September, 2016Electoral Intrigues, Russia, The Presidency

We rush towards disaster and greet it with a smirk.I sketched out what this disaster might look like when Bloomberg broke the story of Andrés Sepúlveda, a man who claims to have help hack elections in Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Venezuela, this spring: Andrés Sepúlveda is a challenge […]

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Hacking Democracy

01 April, 2016Electoral Intrigues, Latin America

Image Source. The scoop of the month was just published in Bloomberg Businessweek. It chronicles the story of Andrés Sepúlveda, a man who claims to have hacked elections in Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Venezuela. To give you a flavor of the piece: …Rendón, says Sepúlveda, saw that hackers […]

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Trump is Not the New Hitler—He is the New Andrew Jackson.

28 February, 2016By The People, Electoral Intrigues, History, Tyranny

“Pegausus,” Those Do Not remember the Past Are Doomed to Repeat It (2016) Image Source: Sam Hayson, “British Street Artist Compares Trump With Hitler,” Mashable (22 Feb 2016). A Note to Readers: I wrote the body of this post several days ago on a Facebook note. Several of those who read it there have urged […]

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Rise of the Rookies: Trudeau’s Grand Experiment

01 February, 2016By The People, Electoral Intrigues

Everyone will be talking about American politics today. However, Iowa is just the first step in the race for the Presidency, and its darlings are often eclipsed by candidates with stronger showings down the road. I don’t have much to say about it. Instead I would like to comment on a different electoral victory. As […]

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Why Did Asian America Abandon the GOP?

04 November, 2015Demographics, Electoral Intrigues

The Washington Post published an essay yesterday that is making the waves. It is titled “Why Asian Americans Don’t Vote Republican.” The author presents Asian-American voting patterns as a mystery to be solved: In the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama won 73 percent of the Asian-American vote. That exceeded his support among traditional Democratic Party […]

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The CNRP Won’t Save the South China Sea

03 July, 2015Electoral Intrigues, Entangling Alliances, Southeast Asia, The Middle Kingdom

A map of “Khmer Krom,” territory once dominated by Khmer speakers before it was conquered by Vietnam in the 18th and 19th centuries. Image Source: Douc Sokha, “សហគមន៍ខ្មែរក្រោមថារកឃើញឯកសារជាង៤០០០ទំព័រ ទាក់ទងនឹងការកាត់ទឹកដីកម្ពុជាក្រោមឲ្យវៀតណាម“, Vod Hot News (15 February 2015) Americans are rarely disinterested observers when watching elections held in foreign climes. The further outside the Western world Americans roam the […]

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Category Archives: Electoral Intrigues

The Cambodian Tilt Towards China

The Election We All Saw Coming

Winning the Popular Vote While Losing Grip on Reality

The Time Has Come to Give The Lie

Are You Prepared For November 9th?

Hacking Democracy

Trump is Not the New Hitler—He is the New Andrew Jackson.

Rise of the Rookies: Trudeau’s Grand Experiment

Why Did Asian America Abandon the GOP?

The CNRP Won’t Save the South China Sea

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