MISCHIEFS OF FACTION

I’m a bit late to this but wanted to weigh in on the Democratic “popularism” discussion. Ezra Klein and David Shor are quite right that...

Politicians want to know what next year’s elections will bring – and create a narrative that helps them in those elections.

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Modeling democratic values in everyday choices strengthens the fabric that is the foundation for troubled democratic institutions. US...

The ongoing debate over the passage of transportation and budget bills underscore how lawmakers act on behalf of misleading assumptions.

Inter-party punishments for the events of January 6th may be less widespread than they seem.

Colorado Republicans may vote this weekend to abandon their primary and pick nominees by convention. Here's why and what it would mean.

In 2018 I encountered, for the first time, a room full of college students with no memory of the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was a...

In 2003, recall opponents warned that a new governor could win with just 15% of the vote. This year, that could actually happen.

A future president would likely conclude that indefinite occupation will get you better press than withdrawal, even from an unpopular war.

The former president has begun endorsing favored Republicans in the 2022 elections, but evidence suggests that it may backfire.

Legislators from across the country--not just the South--contributed to the development of filibustering in Congress.

Elections are at the center of Trumpism. A recent report finds that “Republicans widely support Donald Trump and believe his claims about...

The traditional presidential nomination contest has already begun. But Trump has yet to make a decision that could upend everything else.

If majority parties can help marginal members navigate the tension between the policy demands of their party base and the moderate preferenc

A conversation with Rachel Blum about her recent book How the Tea Party Captured the GOP.

The House GOP has decided it can’t win without Trump’s voters and it can’t keep Trump’s voters if a party leader is condemning Trump.

Whatever it took for the GOP to win a California recall in 2003, they have none of that now.

A third of state legislative contests regularly go uncontested, undermining one of the basic facets of democratic governance.

Academics are mad at James Carville for dismissing what he calls "faculty lounge" politics in his Vox interview with Sean Illing. His...