MISCHIEFS OF FACTION

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...

John Boehner’s new memoir underscores the challenges of governing in today’s Congress.

Mondale saw statemanship inextricably linked with partisanship.

Mondale got annihilated in his run against Reagan; does that mean he was a bad nominee?

The recent debate over the Senate filibuster has led to a lot of fruitful conversation, but also the revival of bad arguments I hoped to...

If you're a publicly engaged scholar, there are critics who want to silence you. Here's how to keep them from winning.

House Republicans wrestle with an age-old dilemma: cooperation versus confrontation.

You can have a democratic system with weakly defined sovereignty, but you can’t have a sovereign democracy that excludes groups of people.

Covid restrictions have kicked lobbyists out of some state legislatures, and that's both a relief and a loss for legislators.

Experiment shows Republicans' fealty to Trump overrides their desire for stimulus money

The House Freedom Caucus is not only highly influential in Congress; it has inspired state lawmakers to form caucuses of their own. Why?

Majority party members often get punished for being part of a productive party, not rewarded.

By Dominik Stecula After over 9 months of the novel coronavirus pandemic in the United States and over 400,00 lost Americans, the initial...

By Amy Erica Smith [Note: This is the English version of an essay that appeared in the 18 January 2021 issue of the Brazilian...