The House moved quickly on a covid-19 response bill. These 4 takeaways explain what’s likely to happen next. Sarah Binder - March 14, 2020 Here’s why the legislative road ahead will be rockier.
3 ways the coronavirus could end Trump’s presidency Michael Tesler - March 9, 2020 Voters are very influenced by what happens in an election year
How many votes could Hurricane Harvey cost Trump in Texas? Jeffery Jenkins, Boris Heersink, and Brenton Peterson - August 29, 2017 Hurricane Harvey has slammed into Texas, bringing power outages, destruction
The Trump administration can’t entirely roll back progress on climate change. Here’s why. Jessica Green - February 10, 2017 [caption id="attachment_53897" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A glacier in Antarctica in 2007.
Should soldiers’ votes get counted? That’s not as easy as you’d think. Donald Inbody - November 11, 2015 [caption id="attachment_32016" align="aligncenter" width="1484"] Members of the Army National Guard
Persuading Americans to act on climate change Joshua Busby and Bethany Albertson - April 8, 2015 [caption id="attachment_23487" align="aligncenter" width="800"] A worker installs solar panels atop
How to weather-proof our elections John Sides - November 7, 2013 [caption id="attachment_2315" align="aligncenter" width="543" special=""] Steve Helber / AP[/caption] It
Hurricane Sandy was huge — but not for the 2012 presidential election John Sides - October 29, 2013 [caption id="attachment_2315" align="aligncenter" width="543" special=""] Steve Helber / AP[/caption] Today's
The speaker’s most loyal troopers - October 17, 2013 [caption id="attachment_1786" align="aligncenter" width="1090" special=""] Spoiler alert! The finale for
The 5 species of House Republicans John Sides - October 4, 2013 [caption id="attachment_1000" align="aligncenter" width="606" special=""] (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty
How Boehner, like Moses, could part the Red Sea - September 27, 2013 [caption id="attachment_549" align="aligncenter" width="1339" special=""] Graph by Sarah Binder based
The Majority Rules, and When It Doesn’t, It Rolls John Sides - July 15, 2013 We welcome this guest post from Andrew Guess, a Ph.D.
I don’t know whether to call it communism or crony capitalism . . . Andrew Gelman - April 27, 2013 . . . but either way it's pretty ugly: Last
Does Boehner benefit from breaking the Hastert rule? - April 13, 2013 Years ago, I won a History Book of the Month
Are the days of the Hastert Rule numbered? Some caution in reading the House - March 1, 2013 Most Congress watchers yesterday quickly noted the remarkable House vote
Oh 113th Congress Hastert Rule, we hardly knew ye! - January 17, 2013 Is the Hastert Rule dead? Speaker Denny Hastert coined his
B-school prof in a parody of short-term thinking Andrew Gelman - January 5, 2013 John Cochrane writes: Yes, infrastructure is crumbling, as a few
Who won the election for Obama? Andrew Gelman - November 7, 2012 Mike Bloomberg and Chris Christie. Sonia Sotomayor. Paul Ryan. Those
The 2004 October Surprise, and What It Means for 2012 John Sides - November 3, 2012 I'm generally not a big believe in "October surprises," which
Is Our Parties Learning? David Karol - November 2, 2012 In a recent post,the estimable Jon Bernstein of A Plain
How Hurricane Sandy Could Matter on Election Day John Sides - October 28, 2012 I'll speak to three possibilities, just for starters: 1) Sandy