Prof. Stephen J. Farnsworth, Professor Emeritus at Mary Washington University, addressed an event in New Delhi marking the 250th anniversary of charting America’s worldview. With students and teachers listening, former Indian Foreign Secretary, Shyam Saran observed: “The last year has shown that the US can be an unreliable and coercive partner.”
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Voters should expect party politics in this nonpartisan school board race (The Baltimore Banner)
“School board elections in Montgomery County and nationally are increasingly taking on partisan coloration, even if party labels are not used,” University of Mary Washington political science professor Stephen Farnsworth said.
Trump rejecting Iran’s latest deal poses a ‘serious threat’: political analyst (CTV News Canada)
“It does seem that both the Iranians and the Americans are convinced that time is on their side,” said Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington. “Both sides are confident the other side will back down first.”
A 10-1 map turns Va. politics upside down — if voters agree (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
“There’s no doubt about it, if you slice Northern Virginia as thinly as they have done in these district maps, you’re going to create a lot of favorable environments for Democrats,” said Steve Farnsworth, director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg.
Virginia’s legislature hasn’t overridden a veto in more than a decade. Could that change Wednesday? (WVTF)
Professor Stephen Farnsworth with the University of Mary Washington said Youngkin may have miscalculated when he overturned the largely red and rural-backed effort. “The governor will face more severe threats of an overridden veto because of the way that he ignored Republican concerns,” Farnsworth told Radio IQ.
McGuire versus Good heats up in Fifth Congressional District (Cardinal News)
While there may not be very many policy differences between the two candidates, walking away from Trump may not have been the best strategy for Good, said Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington.
