Vice President Hubert Humphrey explained that “trust and confidence of the people is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.” With the election coming to a close, is it the process or the perception of the process that brings this confidence.
Blockchain is a way to keep track of who has owned something throughout time. For example, a cow gives birth, the newborn eats some Wyoming grass, travels by truck to Nebraska, and eventually ends up in a hamburger at an Orlando drive-through.
Will President-Elect Biden keep his promises and govern like an American, rather than a democrat? And what will that mean for Wyoming coal communities?
With Fracking and clean energy reliable topics in the election, Wyoming’s coal community base and three electoral votes are reliably Republican. Wyoming is reliably written off by both parties.
This year’s presidential election might come down to students. More than other large voting blocs, their turnout varies enormously from election to election, and some of the most important swing states have lots of students.
Party politics and political expedience have combined to create an environment of underfunded schools, crumbling infrastructure, and vulnerable coal communities. What does this boil down to, a next-generation that is forced to look outside our borders for jobs?
In early spring, President Trump began warning us that the U.S. Postal Service may not be able to manage the flood of anticipated ballots this November….Is this the wrong hill for the Republican Party to die on?
Thanks to virtual socializing, David Dodson says, he and his former Stanford GSB classmates have “seen more of each other in the last two months than in the prior two years.”| Illustration by Kim Salt.
The economy is the sum of millions of small economic and social decisions, and if they want to know what the next year will be like, policymakers need to step away from the cable news cameras and walk through American streets.
Each year, in my last lecture to the graduating class of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, I speak of the playground rules that we’re taught as children by our parents. One of those rules is not to lie.
When the political system turns to special interests and donors to design a $2 trillion program, it should leave us unsurprised that with legislation intended to save small businesses, New York wins while Wyoming and the lumber yard loses.
We must remember that it’s not enough to have elections in which the votes are counted accurately. Representative democracy requires a fair and robust contest before the ballots are cast.
