Will Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski support Trump’s Supreme Court nominee? Here’s what history tells us. Michele Swers - July 6, 2018 [caption id="attachment_75341" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) speaks at
When members of Congress announce their retirement, this is how they change Michael Romano - November 3, 2017 [caption id="attachment_65741" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) speaks to
This is why Charlie Dent and other moderates are disappearing from Congress Danielle Thomsen - September 12, 2017 [caption id="attachment_63440" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), shown July
Donald Trump is a textbook example of an ideological moderate Doug Ahler and David Broockman - December 16, 2015 [caption id="attachment_33582" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaking
How and why retired politicians get lucrative appointments on corporate boards - February 1, 2015 [caption id="attachment_20785" align="aligncenter" width="605"] Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) left the Senate
Never too late to reform the Senate filibuster - June 21, 2012 Wonkblog reports that Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) has been researching potential
The Death March of the Moderates Nolan McCarty - February 29, 2012 A famous map by Charles Joseph Minard illustrates the plight
Happy Xmas, War Is(n’t) Over Andrew Rudalevige - November 30, 2011 US troops are leaving Iraq, in the absence of an
Thoughts on Groseclose book on media bias Andrew Gelman - July 29, 2011 Respected political scientist Tim Groseclose just came out with a
Did Russ Feingold Really Change FinReg? John Sides - July 22, 2010 Barry Pump rebuts McCarty, Poole, Romer, and Rosenthal's argument: bq.
Scott Brown is More Liberal Than Olympia Snowe, and Now He’s Pivotal, Too Andrew Gelman - January 20, 2010 Boris writes, regarding the recent U.S. Senate election (in which
The Effect of the MA Special Election Joshua Tucker - January 20, 2010 Just as "John predicted":https://themonkeycage.org/2010/01/please_dont_tell_me_what_the_m.html, now that Scott Brown has "won
What Doesn’t Gail Collins Understand about Party Unity? John Sides - April 29, 2009 Via Ezra Klein, I see that Gail Collins wrote the
The (Ever) Powerful Ladies from Maine - February 18, 2009 Over on Marginal Revolution today, I see that the economists