States are still trying to ban trans youths from sports. Here’s what you need to know.
State legislators have proposed dozens of bills targeting trans children. What’s at stake?
Jan. 6 hearings show a democracy in crisis. Civic education can help.
Public education once trained young citizens to be part of democracy. Here’s what’s needed now.
Biden has resettled the fewest refugees in the history of the U.S. program. What could change that?
Refugees bring communities a net financial gain, research finds
Huawei has an advantage in its push for global dominance. Now the U.S. is trying to counter it.
USAID announced a financing plan to help countries buy from other telecom vendors
Barack Obama and Kamala Harris both identify as Black. The news media doesn’t describe both that way.
Harris is much more likely to be described as multiracial.
Turkey issued new rules for social media. That may mean that media censorship wasn’t working.
More Turks have been getting their news online
Are the Dreamers safe now that the Supreme Court ruled? Not exactly. Here’s what’s still up in the air.
Their lives are still in flux, depending on where they live and what the courts decide next.
Trump-Biden voters could decide the 2020 election
Nine percent of Trump’s 2016 voters say they’re planning to vote for Biden, our data suggest.
Women are mysteriously missing from D.C. think tanks’ foreign policy panels. Here’s the data.
Here’s the fifth article in our series on the gender gap in political science.
More states are registering voters automatically. Here’s how that affects voting.
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This map shows the 31 countries where transgender and gender-variant candidates have run for office since 1977
[caption id="attachment_33473" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Tamara Adrián, lawmaker-elect in Venezuela's parliament,
Mutual escalation in Egypt
[caption id="attachment_21084" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi delivers
The Sociology of Think-Tanks
"This article":http://www.thenation.com/article/174437/secret-donors-behind-center-american-progress-and-other-think-tanks in The Nation is likely to cause some
Dinner Won’t Do It
Since the election President Obama has received a wide range
The political economy of skills
"Matthew Yglesias":http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/02/16/emo_capitalists_don_t_want_to_train_workers.html proposes that employers should tackle problems of skill
More Expert Analysis on Tymoshenko Verdict
As a follow up to last week's post of expert
New Study on US-Russian Relations
A new study on US-Russian relations is available and can
Needed: A Billionaire Candidate for President Who Shares the Views of a Washington Post Columnist
Writing in the Washington Post, Matt Miller wants a billionaire
Political scientist and Fox TV interviewer discuss media bias
See here for the story. Apparently an article from the
“What Political Scientists Can Offer Journalists,” Part I
From left: Mark Blumenthal, Mark Schmitt, Ezra Klein, me, Matthew
Conservatives Copying Liberals Copying Conservatives
"Matthew Yglesias":http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/05/a-heritage-of-the-left-of-the-right.php quotes an article on Douglas Holtz-Eakin's proposal to
Conservative Dominance of Political Talk Radio
Tune in to a political talk radio show these days