Congress finally passed a federal anti-lynching bill — after 120 years of failure
For decades, a small, intensely committed Senate minority was able to use Senate rules to block change and maintain the Jim Crow system in the South
Biden says that the infrastructure bill shows the presidency can deliver for ‘all Americans’
There’s a history behind that vision
U.S. workers have been striking in startling numbers. Will that continue?
Looking at more than 100 years of data, we found several factors associated with strikes.
We compared the Supreme Court with other democracies’ high courts. More justices would improve its work.
More justices could produce more opinions — and improve consistency in U.S. law.
A majority of Americans support ‘Bidenomics.’ The pandemic changed minds dramatically.
Watching the death toll and economic devastation transformed views on taxing corporations and the wealthy, our research suggests.
Republicans’ Supreme Court gambit may backfire. Here’s how.
Democrats can play constitutional hardball, too
Trump attacked the Supreme Court again. Here are 4 things to know.
Previous presidents treated the court quite differently — even when they attacked its decisions.
Conservative Supreme Court judges may undermine Trump to get their way
They may care less about the president’s trade agenda than gutting the administrative state.
Joe Biden’s nostalgia for ‘civility’ is nostalgia for the politics of Jim Crow
He may not realize it, but that boozy politesse grew from Southern politicians’ need to work across party lines to keep civil rights at bay.
Can Bill Weld unseat Trump? Let’s look at the history of challenges to incumbent presidents.
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld speaks during a New England
How SPLC’s co-founder Morris Dees and the conservative Richard Viguerie changed American politics
What do they have in common — besides the fact that both worked for George Wallace?
Cornel West accused Ta-Nehisi Coates of being a neoliberal. Does neoliberal still mean anything?
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Why won’t Congress really investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia?
[caption id="attachment_57416" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). (AP Photo/Rick
Trump wants to impose a whopping 35% tariff on businesses that move jobs overseas. This is why.
Donald Trump has just announced via Twitter that he wants
Why are African-Americans such loyal Democrats when they are so ideologically diverse?
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These 2 trends are what produced such a negative Republican National Convention
The Republican National Convention in July 2016 received mostly negative
Will Trump’s anti-Latino statements hurt the GOP? Here’s what we can learn from LBJ and Goldwater.
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How did the dramatic election of 1968 change U.S. politics? This new book explains.
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Is Trump the last gasp of Reagan’s Republican Party?
With Donald Trump almost certainly the Republican Party’s candidate for
If Hillary Clinton is running for Obama’s ‘third term,’ she faces these challenges
[caption id="attachment_24542" align="aligncenter" width="908"] (Mike Blake/Reuters)[/caption] So it looks as
One-third of all U.S. presidents appointed a Supreme Court justice in an election year
Eminent Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously described his fellow
Here’s why originalism won’t be buried with Scalia
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Five challenges facing Burkina Faso’s new president (and 3 reasons for optimism)
[caption id="attachment_34418" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian
Born that way? ‘Scientific’ racism is creeping back into our thinking. Here’s what to watch out for.
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Born that way? ‘Scientific’ racism is creeping back into our thinking. Here’s what to watch out for.
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The free market is an impossible utopia
Fred Block (research professor of sociology at University of California
Our politics is polarized on more issues than ever before
Thomas Carsey is the Pearsall Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Was the nuclear option about filling the courts or filling the courts with Democrats?
The following guest post is by Tom Clark and Sanford
The Perils of Democrats’ Euphoria, or Why the 2012 Election Is Not a Realignment
After the 2004 election, commentator Michael Lind wrote: bq. Karl
Is Paul Ryan Really the Most Conservative Vice-Presidential Nominee?
This is a guest post from University of California, Berkeley
Evaluating Forecasts of the Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling
This is a guest post by my colleague Brandon Bartels.
Polarization is Real (and Asymmetric)
This post is co-authored with Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, and
How Enduring Is American Economic Inequality?
Alfred Stepan and Juan Linz in a "review essay":http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8452384&fulltextType=RV&fileId=S1537592711003756 in
Mischaracterizing FDR to Indict Obama
Part of Drew Westen's piece suggested that Obama should have
Should Political Scientists Care More About Politics?
Archon Fung says "yes":http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.3/archon_fung_winner_take_all_politics.php in his review of Jacob Hacker
Response to Lane Kenworthy
As a regular reader of The Monkey Cage, I am
Why don’t low-income whites love the Democrats?
_Unequal Democracy_ is one of the best books on American
Money and the Midterms: Are the Parties Over?
Thomas Ferguson's take on the 2010 elections: 2008 had all
Conservatives for Hillary?
John discusses an argument by Bruce Bartlett that it made
Paul Krugman, Political Scientist?
By now, I imagine that most everybody knows that Paul
Variable 666
"Eric Rauchway":http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/variable-666/ has an interesting post on the reasons why