MISCHIEFS OF FACTION

The dramatic shift in the primary that happened yesterday on Super Tuesday began on Saturday in South Carolina. One way to read that...

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This year, I'm taking Georgetown students on a tour of early state nomination contests. In Nevada, we visited the first-in-the-west...

In Bolivia, the opposition made strategic choices that shaped the outcome. Here are lessons from their experience.

The normal calculations a party makes when deciding on a nominee have been short-circuited this cycle.

This year, I'm taking Georgetown students on a tour of early state nomination contests. While in New Hampshire, we stopped by the debate...

The decline of norms has become a common criticism of Trump era politics. The violation of unwritten rules ties together some of the...

By now, the comparisons between the Iowa Caucuses and the Electoral College are becoming apparent. Bernie Sanders has been leading in...

This year, I took a group of Georgetown's best students to Iowa to see the nation's first caucuses unfold. (I'm taking groups to New...

Bad behavior at yesterday's State of the Union address signals a continuing decline in the respect that our leaders have for institutions.

As the invisible primary comes to an end, a look at how much work the party has already done.

Here's what we learn about impeachment from statistics, democratic theory, and a tour through Latin America. It bodes ill for US democracy.

As the Iowa caucuses approach, there’s been lots of talk on the internet about whether Bernie Sanders can win. He’s gained support in the...

Sanders has significant strengths, but may have a harder time than other candidates in translating those into a majority of delegates.

Brenda Wiseapple's book The Impeachers suggests ways that Trump's impeachment is not so different from Andrew Johnson's.

The political science literature on term limits is almost uniformly negative.

Donald Trump’s electoral appeal is populist. It is populist in the specific sense in which Cas Mudde and Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser...

Pelosi says she is not whipping this week’s impeachment vote. The truth is more complicated.

The Star Wars universe not only tells us things about politics, but reflects and even shapes politics in the real world.

Want to make parties less democratic? It turns out state parties do this quite a bit.