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I analyze a minimax solution to the problem of social choice in a multidimensional policy space called the defensive optimum (DO). The proposed solution applies to a wide variety of models in voting including those concerning political advertising, incumbency advantage and interest group politics. The defensive optimum always exists, is unique and is continuous in the density of voter preferences. When a Condorcet winner exists it corresponds to the defensive optimum and, appealingly, the DO is always located on planes about with the density of voters is symmetric. Adapted from the source document.

California Rep. Katie Porter is best known for wielding a whiteboard during congressional hearings, stumping CEOs and government officials on how their actions impact everyday Americans. As a single mother who grew up on a farm in Iowa, Rep. Porter has said she entered Congress with a different perspective than many of her colleagues on what exactly an everyday American is, inspiring her jump to politics. She joined David during a live recording to talk about her path from law professor to Congress member, her roots in Iowa politics, her passion for consumer protection issues, how she made the whiteboard famous, and her new book, "I Swear: Politics is Messier Than My Minivan."To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Susan Glasser is a preeminent political journalist with nearly three decades of reporting experience spanning foreign policy, domestic politics, and war correspondence. She joins David to talk about her experience as co-chief of the Washington Post's Moscow bureau under the auspices of the early Putin regime; what she gleaned from conducting the first interview Vladimir Putin granted to American correspondents in 2001, and how authoritarian qualities endemic to Putin's Russia undergird aspects of American politics today.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE LIMITS CONSIDERATION OF POLITICAL HISTORY TO NO MORE THAN SIX THOUSAND YEARS, AND OF POLITICAL THEORY (PHILOSOPHY) TO LESS THAN HALF THAT IN EXCLUSIVE RELIANCE UPON SURVIVING FRAGMENTS OF WRITINGS. THE GENERAL QUESTION RAISED HERE IS: WHAT ARE SOME OF THE IMPLICATIONS FOR REORIENTING THE STUDY OF POLITICS, IF MODERN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY, AND THE EMPIRICAL FINDINGS OF PALEOBIOLOGISTS AND PHYSICAL ANTHOROPOLOGISTS AND PRIMATOLOGISTS, WERE TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY POLITICAL SCIENTISTS? AS AN EXPLICIT EXAMPLE, TWO CURRENT AND COMPETING MODELS OF HUMAN SOCIOPOLITICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT ARE DISCUSSED: (1) THAT HUMANS ACT LIKE OTHER PRIMATES, AND IN PARTICULAR LIKE APES, BECAUSE OF GENETIC HOMOLOGY; AND (2) THAT HUMANS ACT LIKE THE SOCIAL CARNIVORES BECAUSE THEY HAVE, FOR MORE THAN A MILLION YEARS, BECOME ADAPTED TO AN ANALOGOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NICE. CONCLUSIONS FROM THAT ANALYSIS LEAD TO SPECIFIC IMPLICATIONS FOR POLITICAL THEORY, POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION, POLITICAL COMMUNICATION, POLITICAL EQUALITY AND PUBLIC POLICY.

"Border Politics in Africa" published on by Oxford University Press.

Iranian scholar Ramin Jahanbegloo interviews one of the leading political thinkers our time, Bhikhu Parekh, and in the process addresses issues ranging from cultural diversity, religion, and global ethics to identity politics, liberal democracy, Islam and Europe, and Gandhi's role as a political thinker and social reformer.

Growing up, GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio spent time helping out at his grandfather's produce stand in Brooklyn, selling everything from watermelons to Christmas trees. While he was always interested in politics, fostered by an early fascination with Richard Nixon, the idea of politics as a career didn't take shape for Tony until he moved to Long Island at age 12. Tony joined David to talk about how he got his start in political polling, the story behind the infamous Willie Horton ad, working with Donald Trump on his presidential campaigns, Trump's 2024 prospects, and getting kicked out of the Young Republicans.
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