Author: Richard Bishirijan (Richard Bishirijan)

Public commentary on recent murders and acts of violence against African Americans has been universally explained as evidence of ingrained racism of American society, the racism of police, and implicit racism of the Republican Party. The result has been wholesale rejection of the display of symbols associated with the Confederate States of America. Even Sen....

The day Sen. Ted Cruz launched his Presidential campaign with a speech at Liberty University, media critics used the phrase “Goldwater Cycle” to portray the dilemma of the GOP as it faces the Presidential election of 2016. While in college, I worked on both the 1960 Nixon and the 1964 Goldwater campaigns and have some...