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Campaign Limericks

Campaign Limericks is a project by Catherine D’Ignazio, with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things, that quantitatively analyzes recent speeches by the top four presidential candidates. By remixing candidates’ top words and phrases on the campaign trail we produce limericks about politics, campaigning and the political process that were never spoken outright (but maybe should have been). These limericks are data visualizations of political speech. The color…

Exhibition of artist Stephen Tourlentes – Of Length and Measures: Prison and the American Landscape

Of Length and Measures: Prison and the the American Landscape, an exhibition of artist Stephen Tourlentesblack and white photographs of U.S. prisons, shot at night, usually from a distance, was on display at the Center for American Political Studies from January 20 – March 31, 2016. This exhibition highlighted the growing pervasiveness of prisons across the U.S….