Presidential assertions of power over the bureaucracy are nothing new Nicholas G. Napolio - April 2, 2025 Trump has supercharged the GOP playbook, however.
Congress finally passed a federal anti-lynching bill — after 120 years of failure Justin Peck and Jeffery Jenkins - March 9, 2022 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’ John A. Dearborn - November 28, 2021 There’s a history behind that vision
U.S. workers have been striking in startling numbers. Will that continue? Jasmine Kerrissey and Judith Stepan-Norris - November 10, 2021 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. Sivaram Cheruvu, Matthew J. Gabel, James F. Spriggs II, Jay N. Krehbiel, and Clifford J. Carrubba - May 10, 2021 More justices could produce more opinions — and improve consistency in U.S. law.
A majority of Americans support ‘Bidenomics.’ The pandemic changed minds dramatically. Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap, Nina Sophie Weber, Konstantinos Matakos, Christel Koop, and Asli Unan - April 30, 2021 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. Robinson Woodward-Burns - September 23, 2020 Democrats can play constitutional hardball, too
Trump attacked the Supreme Court again. Here are 4 things to know. Paul Collins and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha - February 26, 2020 Previous presidents treated the court quite differently — even when they attacked its decisions.
Conservative Supreme Court judges may undermine Trump to get their way Todd N. Tucker - June 21, 2019 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 Sam Rosenfeld - June 20, 2019 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.