MISCHIEFS OF FACTION

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 Buttigie...

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

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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 caucu...

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 deve...

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

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 Hamp...

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.