Sarah Binder
March 2, 2024
What Mitch McConnell leaves behind
He normalized obstruction but sometimes made the Senate work.
Christopher Federico
March 1, 2024
Serge Gainsbourg, ‘Hold-Up’: The Week In One Song
Another hold-up in one of the Trump cases.
Nadia E. Brown, Camille Burge, and Christine M. Slaughter
February 29, 2024
How Black women get their political news matters for this election
A new study investigates the ways Black women use social media, TV news, and other sources to engage with politics.
Zein Murib
February 27, 2024
New findings from the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey
New state-level bills targeting transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans add to these individuals' concerns.
Christian Breunig
February 26, 2024
Good Playlist: Intro to comparative politics ▶️
A soundtrack to encourage students to apply course concepts in a different context.
Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo
February 23, 2024
Young Indonesians voted in a former general as president
The 2024 election results suggest new challenges for Indonesia’s 25-year democracy.
Andrew Rudalevige
February 22, 2024
Good to Know: U.S. war powers
Does the president or Congress have the power to go to war?
Joshua Tucker, Timothy Frye, Bryn Rosenfeld, Andrei Soldatov, Daniel Treisman, Konstantin Sonin, and Kathryn Stoner
February 21, 2024
Alexei Navalny has died. What is his legacy?
We asked scholars of Russian politics for their insights.
Erik Voeten and Daniel Kelemen
February 19, 2024
What Europe can do to reverse democratic backsliding 🎧
A conversation with Dan Kelemen about the successes and failures of stopping democratic decline in Hungary and the rest of Europe.