How Native women in state legislatures are changing politics Nadia E. Brown and Elise Blasingame - November 30, 2023 From tribal sovereignty to missing and murdered Indigenous women, they’re responding to Native concerns.
What the clean energy boom means for fossil fuel communities Jeremy Wallace, Dustin Tingley, and Alexander F. Gazmararian - November 21, 2023 'Uncertain Futures' reveals what makes policies and promises attractive to those upturned by a greener economy.
Will protests over the Israel-Hamas war shift U.S. policy? Marc Lynch, Jeremy Pressman, and Jay Ulfelder - October 27, 2023 Two experts share their insights on the growing number of U.S. protest events.
Most Republican candidates endorse the ‘big lie’ — even when voters don’t Brendan Hartnett and Brian Schaffner - October 12, 2022 We examined whether candidates’ beliefs — for and against the "big lie” — matched up with those of their state’s voters. Nope.
What Mary Peltola’s win in Alaska may mean for Indian country Elise Blasingame - September 12, 2022 Rep.-elect Peltola joins the U.S. House of Representatives this week and is on the ballot again in November
How D.C. could decide the next presidential election Clarence Lusane - July 19, 2022 Washington’s lack of representation reveals several cracks in American democracy
Supreme Court justices sounded suspicious of New York’s gun law. Here’s what might come next. Jake Charles - November 4, 2021 Will the court listen to empirical evidence about safety, or just strike down any regulations that didn’t exist in the 18th century?
Why Joe Manchin is such a problem for his party Sarah Binder - June 10, 2021 It's not easy being blue in a red state
As Georgia’s new law shows, when Black people gain local power, states strip that power away. Domingo Morel - March 31, 2021 Think of Michigan officials taking over Flint’s water supply
For Democratic governors, it pays to have a Democratic attorney general. Republicans, not so much. Nicholas Miras - August 2, 2020 Many states split up executive branch power among several elected officials. Here’s what happens when they are not from the same party.
Native Americans won an unusual legal victory at the Supreme Court. Congress could undo it. Todd Curry and Rebecca Reid - July 28, 2020 Justice Neil M. Gorsuch regularly rules in favor of indigenous rights
The politics of D.C. statehood follow a well-worn path. Here’s why. Paul Frymer - July 6, 2020 Race also featured in past statehood debates
D.C. statehood is back on the House’s agenda. Here’s why it faces an uphill battle. Robinson Woodward-Burns - September 19, 2019 Can you say “taxation without representation”?
A silent pension crisis is eating away local government services. Here’s what you need to know. Sarah Anzia - August 4, 2019 State and local governments are cutting police, firefighters and other staff to pay their retirees.
Why didn’t more congressional Republicans condemn Trump’s racist tweets about the ‘Squad’? This graph explains. Jan Zilinsky - July 19, 2019 Look at the kind of district each represents, and their responses make more sense.
Democrats want to make D.C a state. Here’s what it would take. Jeffrey W. Ladewig - June 18, 2019 And here’s what it would do to the other states’ seats in Congress.
In the 2018 midterms, many more people are running — and far more seats are contested — than we’ve seen for a generation. Rochelle Snyder and Barry Burden - October 17, 2018 [caption id="attachment_78990" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Amy McGrath, a former U.S. Marine
No, term limits won’t #DrainTheSwamp. We did the research. Jordan Butcher and Aaron Kushner - May 8, 2018 [caption id="attachment_71234" align="aligncenter" width="960"] (AP)[/caption] On April 30, President Trump
In every state, majorities oppose Trump’s proposed ban on transgender military service Patrick Miller, Jami Taylor, Don Haider-Markel, Daniel Lewis, Barry Tadlock, and Andrew Flores - August 4, 2017 After President Trump recently proposed to ban transgender people from
Most Americans support government regulation to fight climate change. Including in Pittsburgh. Lyle Scruggs and Clifford Vickrey - June 5, 2017 [caption id="attachment_59297" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Protesters gather outside the White House
This is what we learned by counting the women’s marches Jeremy Pressman and Erica Chenoweth - February 7, 2017 Editors' note: This is the fifth post in our series
The electoral college badly distorts the vote. And it’s going to get worse. Katy Collin - November 17, 2016 [caption id="attachment_49696" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Protesters demonstrate against President-elect Donald Trump
The electoral college has serious problems. So do any alternatives. Andrew Rudalevige - November 15, 2016 [caption id="attachment_49524" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A voter casts his ballot in
The big fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline, explained Nives Dolšak, Maggie Allen, and Aseem Prakash - September 20, 2016 [caption id="attachment_46415" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Protesters demonstrate against the Energy Transfer
Bernie Sanders thinks the Democratic primary process ‘distorts reality.’ Does history back this up? Jeffery Jenkins and Boris Heersink - April 17, 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont recently said his
For research, we pretended to be crooks and terrorists and tried to buy shell companies. The results were disturbing. Jason Sharman - April 7, 2016 People across the world, including world leaders, have been variously
Tax havens for despots, criminals and the Fortune 500 Neil Abrams and Steven Fish - February 12, 2015 [caption id="attachment_21172" align="alignnone" width="620"] The HSBC corporate logo outside a
Welcome to the most unrepresentative Senate election since World War II Patrick Egan - November 3, 2014 With less than 24 hours to go before Election Day
Why do Asian Americans mostly vote for Democrats? Andrew Gelman - March 19, 2014 Political scientists Alexander Kuo, Neil Malhotra and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo
The surprising parity of the 2012 ground game Dan Hopkins - February 27, 2014 Ryan D. Enos and Anthony Fowler are assistant professors at
If the filibuster does survive, here's how to make it better John Sides - December 16, 2013 [caption id="attachment_4084" align="aligncenter" width="614" special=""] (AP)[/caption] This is a guest
Public Opinion and the Senate Votes on Gun Control John Sides - April 18, 2013 Brian Schaffner sends this graph and commentary: The Senate
Why aren’t Asians Republicans? For one thing, more than half of them live in California, New York, New Jersey, and Hawaii Andrew Gelman - November 27, 2012 Conservative data cruncher Charles Murray asks, "Why aren’t Asians Republicans?":
Just in case… Andrew Rudalevige - February 26, 2012 Norm Ornstein and others have long been concerned about the
More on Unions and State Budgets John Sides - February 22, 2011 Thanks to some useful comments to my earlier "post":https://themonkeycage.org/2011/02/the_relationship_between_union.html, I
Trivia Question: Senate Streaks Joshua Tucker - July 16, 2009 I heard a good trivia question on yesterday's "Talk of
The (Ever) Powerful Ladies from Maine - February 18, 2009 Over on Marginal Revolution today, I see that the economists
Truths and Myths about the 2008 Election, Part II John Sides - November 5, 2008 2. OMG THE BRADLEY EFFECT OMG THE BRADLEY EFFECT OMG!