Is This Normal?

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Is This Normal?

FromThe Politics Lab

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Jul 1, 2020

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Bill and Phil discuss the strangeness of the political week we've just lived through, new allegations about Russian bounties on American troops, and the implications of some really bad poll numbers for Donald Trump.

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Jul 1, 2020

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Politics isn’t always black and white. Dr. Bill Muck and Dr. Phil Barker, professors of political science and longtime friends, talk through the week’s news and discuss how political science might help make sense of things. In The Politics Lab, we put politics under the microscope.

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