Merle Black
Merle Black
P. Merle Blackis the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political Science at Emory University. He is a frequent media source on Southern politics, as is his twin brother, Earl Black, a professor at Rice University. The two brothers are sometime co-authors, and have written several important books about politics in the Southern US, including Politics and Society in the South and The Vital South. Black was President of the Southern Political Science Association, 2002-2003...
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She's brought back the old Cynthia. There won't be any more news stories about the new Cynthia McKinney.
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He can't argue his way to better numbers. He needs favorable results in Iraq. And that's out of his hands.
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What else can he do? If he doesn't do anything, he will be criticized as being too passive. But no matter how many speeches he makes, nothing will change for the better until they start changing for the better in Iraq.