Why do some U.S. mayors want more refugees?
Studies find that refugees pay back more than they’re given and that they revitalize abandoned neighborhoods
Biden’s win shows that suburbs are the new swing constituency
The urban-rural divide is reshaping American politics
The Republican Party is white and Southern. How did that happen?
Its leaders made a decision to push out blacks. That helped it to dominate Southern politics.
Who’s the most electable Democrat? It might be Warren or Buttigieg, not Biden.
A study examines who might do best in the electoral college.
There’s a problem with Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s approach to revitalizing South Bend.
Struggling cities and towns are in a costly, zero-sum competition for jobs.
Uber issues its IPO this week. Tomorrow its drivers are threatening a worldwide strike.
Who’s for — and who’s against — regulating its relationship with its workers?
Detroit and Flint keep relying on private money to solve public problems. Why?
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238 cities are wooing Amazon. The winner may end up with a very bad deal.
States and cities often pay a lot of money to
Persuading voters is hard. That doesn’t mean campaigns should give up.
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Did enough Bernie Sanders supporters vote for Trump to cost Clinton the election?
On Tuesday night, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was in Detroit
In every state, majorities oppose Trump’s proposed ban on transgender military service
After President Trump recently proposed to ban transgender people from
The big G-7 summit starts soon. Watch for these 3 signs of harmony — or discord.
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Is Ivanka Trump an effective ambassador for her father’s presidency? It depends on the audience.
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Here’s the real Rust Belt jobs problem — and it’s not offshoring or automation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-to-slash-federal-climate-protections/2017/03/28/bef2e138-13b0-11e7-bb16-269934184168_video.html With his announcement last week that he was lifting
The Trump administration wants to kill the popular Energy Star program because it combats climate change
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Why don’t more Americans vote? Maybe because they don’t trust U.S. elections.
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Trumpism is just as popular in Denmark as the United States
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How pollsters could use social media data to improve election forecasts
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Here’s the real reason Rust Belt cities and towns voted for Trump
Donald Trump won the 2016 election largely because he carried
Why the polls missed in 2016: Was it shy Trump supporters after all?
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An underappreciated fact about the 2016 election: The massive generation gap
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Did Russian hackers elect the U.S. president? Don’t believe the hype.
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Rural Hispanic voters — like white rural voters — shifted toward Trump. Here’s why.
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The Republican Party’s civil war actually began decades ago
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Did Tim Kaine need to flip his position on the TPP to win Sanders’s supporters? Nope.
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A lot of election analysis focuses only on the white working class. That’s a mistake.
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No, Trump won’t win votes from disaffected Democrats in the fall
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Here’s what Trump is telling resentful Americans (and Sanders is not)
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Why haven’t Flint residents fled?
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Is Putin about to face a ‘colored revolution’?
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Car Talk
Gentlemen [sic], start your engines! It’s time to take out