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UKRAINE

My friends are now jailed and others have fled Russia

The one year anniversary of the Russian-Ukrainian War

A year ago, President Vladimir Putin started his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine…

POLITICS

“What time it is in America” is all you’ll hear for the next two years

CLIMATE CHANGE

Extracting Fossil Fuels Today Harms Climate Politics Tomorrow

Word Choice Matters: How Congressional Republicans are Fueling Political Dysfunction

CONGRESS

A Government Shutdown Seems Inevitable — That’s a Bad Electoral Strategy for the GOP

Recent history shows why Democrats would gain from a Republican shutdown

POLITICS

Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure

New research explains why time matters

CONGRESS

Kyrsten Sinema is Stuck in the Middle

What her party affiliation change tells…

Democrats Should Call Sinema’s Bluff

Here’s why the Senate’s newest Independent will drop out of the…

DATA

Here’s what we can learn from new data on post-communist interest groups

CONGRESS

A Glimpse at the Struggle

Or, what to expect when you’re expecting divided…

2022 ELECTIONS

All politics in the US have calcified

The “Red Wave” that never happened

POLITICS

Twitter is Elon’s Ukraine

This is why authoritarians make such bad decisions

ELECTION 2022

Kathy Hochul for President? New York Governors & Presidential Ambitions

JUSTICE

Charitable bail reduces harms as part of criminal legal reform.

IMMIGRATION

Why pro-immigration advocates face a systematic disadvantage

ELECTORAL REFORM

Talk of National Abortion Ban Underscores Need for Electoral College Reform

POLITICS

Semi-Fascism is All-American

Trump and his supporters try to worm their way through our legal and political structures to make it seem they are still promoting democracy while…

ELECTIONS

Alaska’s special election illustrates an unpredictable system

A Radical New “Originalism”: SCOTUS Aims at More than Guns

The Supreme Court just overturned a…

POLITICS

Ranked-choice voting didn’t solve our problems in the last century. And it won’t today.

EDUCATION

New Orleans offers a lesson in why charters are bad for democracy

New book explains why school choice hasn’t let to parent satisfaction

THE COURTS

Affiliation with the Federalist Society helps federal judges get confirmed

Abortion and Politics

States with Anti-Abortion Trigger Laws Score Higher on Measure of Hostile Sexism

ELECTORAL REFORM

Dobbs Decision Highlights Need for Electoral College Reform