MISCHIEFS OF FACTION

Poverty and fiscal constraints make developing countries especially vulnerable to COVID-19. In Brazil, politics aggravates those risks.

When a catastrophe destroyed the faith that wealthy elites would look after everyone else, people turned to government instead.

A year ago, it seemed like every week had brought a new entrant into a diverse group of presidential hopefuls, from the obvious to the unknown. One looming q...

The board game Pandemic offers useful lessons for how political leaders should have—and too often have not—dealt with the coronavirus.

Three ways that the coronavirus epidemic could have electoral consequences.

Democrats cannot afford a disgruntled party faction, even if they are capable of coordinating to defeat it.

The Dems did in three days what the GOP failed to do in all of 2015 and 2016: coordinate on a candidate.

After Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary, a lot of power players in the Democratic Party have come to his aid. Rivals Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar ...

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

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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 caucuses in Las Vegas. (W...

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 at St. Anselm Colleg...

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

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

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 Hampshire, Nevada and So...

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

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.