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POLITICS

Nonpartisan elections don’t reduce polarization

State-legislative edition

POLITICS and GOVERNMENT

George Shultz and the History of Centralized Rulemaking

POLITICS

Where to find the alternative conservative institutions

While others have…

Covid and Homelessness

How to Stop Covid From Exacerbating Homelessness

Does feminism influence white American women and men’s beliefs about racial discrimination?

Police Reform

Reimagining Police Recruiting: Seven Strategies for Diversifying the Police in Tumultuous Times.

CONGRESS

Here’s the evidence lobbyists are trying to persuade your member of Congress

Who Influenced Election 2020 on Instagram?

The attempts of politicians, entertainers, women and…

Inequality in America

How Institutional Gridlock and Racism Increase Income Inequality

RACE and ACCOUNTABILITY

Here’s the Surprising Way Race Matters to Holding Public Officials Accountable

Feminism and Racial Justice

Can feminism help white Americans recognize racial discrimination?

A New Pandemic Federalism?

[Note to the reader: this post is appearing after a few months ‘hiatus’, by which I mean following and writing…

Trump, Presidents, Politics

Was Trump a “bad president?” That’s up to us to decide.

What is Your State Doing to Fight COVID-19?

Tracking initial closures and changes at the state level…

Political Power

Why We’re Not Trending Towards a Second Civil War

Another U.S. Civil…

Politics and Government

The Left Doesn’t “Speak” WV Senator Joe Manchin

To Keep Winning, Democrats Should Avoid the Biggest Mistake of the Obama Administration

Politics

Where sedition is rewarded

An analysis of Pro-Trump congressional districts

Political Polarization

Here’s one reason why disdain for the other party is on the rise

Preempting COVID-19 Response

Are governors risking public health by blocking local responses to…

Senate

These data that show why turnout made the difference in Georgia

Politics

Is the bureaucracy to blame for the siege on the Capitol?

Ted Cruz, the Tea…

Politics

What Happened Last Wednesday?

What we all witnessed had nothing to do with “white privilege”

The Politics of Food

Why does the Farm Bill divide the House majority?