Who can convince Americans to follow the science on coronavirus? Religious leaders. Sam Winter-Levy and Bryan Schonfeld - May 7, 2020 They can get people to look beyond partisanship.
In some states, coronavirus measures are effectively banning abortion Miranda Yaver - March 30, 2020 Governors and other officials are declaring abortions to be ‘nonessential’ medical procedures
A new kind of anti-trans legislation is hitting the red states Zein Murib - February 25, 2020 Here’s the new target, after ‘bathroom bills’ failed and marriage equality won
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, ‘Kentucky Skank’: The Week in One Song Christopher Federico - November 8, 2019 Matt Bevin comes up short in Kentucky.
Yes, Democrats now control Virginia’s legislature and Kentucky’s governorship. Don’t expect much to change. Matt Grossmann - November 7, 2019 State governments’ directions are harder to turn than you might think, my research finds
In 2020, could two female pig farmers run against each other for Iowa’s Senate seat? Meredith Conroy and Lilly Goren - June 14, 2019 Campaigning against gender stereotypes is tricky. Here’s how one candidate is doing it.
Women who’ve been pregnant are more likely to support abortion rights — if you remind them of their pregnancies Eleanor Schiff and Anne Whitesell - June 2, 2019 But does that stay with them when they vote?
Alabama state legislators are wrong about their voters’ opinions on abortion. Leah C. Stokes - May 28, 2019 Why would politicians pass abortion bans that their voters oppose?
Citizens feel disconnected from government. If they knew what government did for them, they wouldn’t. Henry Farrell - November 28, 2018 Suzanne Mettler is the John L. Senior Professor of American
Secret groups of Democratic women are organizing deep in Republican territory Emily Van Duyn - November 26, 2018 Both political scientists and pundits talk about geographic sorting: States,